Posters, Playbills, Programs, and Drawings From the Archives Now Digitized

127 items from the Hunter College Concert Bureau Collection have been digitized and put online, including posters, playbills, programs and drawings. The Hunter College Concert Bureau was founded in 1943 by Hunter President George N. Shuster and continued until 1975. Prominent performers included violinists Jascha Heifetz, Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern, pianists Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, opera singers Marian Anderson, Joan Sutherland, Jussi Bjorling and Renata Tebaldi, writers W.H. Auden and Thomas Mann, and actor Sir John Gielgud.

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