Concert program, performance by Mischa Elman, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 1939

Elman was a Russian-born violinist, who studied as a child at the Imperial Academy of Music in Odessa, and then was admitted to the St Petersburg Conservatory at the age of 11. Within the next couple of years, he made his performance debuts in Berlin (1904), London (1905), and the United States, at Carnegie Hall (1908), and began an extensive recording and perfoming career around that time. He immigrated to the United States with his family, and became a citizen in 1923. One concert program, for a performance of a violin concerto of Mischa Elman, at the Teatro Municipal in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, August 1939. Elman was accompanied on piano by Vladimir Padwa, and the concert was sponsored by the Asociacion Cultural de Bahia Blanca. The program is signed by Elman on the right margin of the cover page.