Portrait photograph of Ruth Haroldson, faculty member of the Whittier College Music Department, violinist, and conductor of the Whittier College Community Orchestra.
At center, Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, ascends a short staircase backstage. He dons his concert attire and glances back towards the right.
Gathering of musicians, composers, and conductors who are members of the Hollywood Bowl campaign committee. Photo appears with the article, "Guiding Spirits of Open-Air Symphony Season: Bowl Drive Plans Laid Campaign Committees Named at First of Series of Breakfast for Music Leaders," Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1930: A1.
Photograph of Austrian conductor Otto Klemperer as he leaves to board a train. Shaking his hand is William Andrews Clark, Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, which Mr. Klemperer conducted during the season. In the background are George Leslie Smith, the orchestra manager and his wife, Mrs. Caroline E. Smith.
Bruno Walter arrives at the train station in Los Angeles with his daughter, Grete, and his wife, Elsa. Raymond Brite (Hollywood Bowl manager) stands on the left.
From left to right, conductor Leopold Stokowski and cellist Isidore Gusikoff of the Philadelphia Orchestra stand side-by-side. Leopold Stokowski stands at center and looks down at a document he holds. Isidore Gusikoff stands beside him and also looks at the document.
Austrian conductor, Otto Klemperer, often considered one of the five greatest living orchestra conductors of the time, laying a laurel wreath at the base of the statue of Beethoven located at Pershing Square. He inaugurated his 1933 season at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra the following day with Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony."