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Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2023.0.183Description
Nighttime photo of the stage for the Deepest Valley Theatre in the Alabama Hills. There are many people watching or waiting for the performance.
Typewritten caption on a half sheet of paper affixed to reverse: From Curtis Phillips. To hear the music of Deepest Valley Theatre, concert-lovers bring their own chairs or cushions and disperse themselves among the rocks so that the audience blends unobtrusively into the natural surroundings. As the evening proceeds, the enveloping darkness heightens the sense of concentration on the stage and the music. Stars become brilliant in the backdrop of a sky free from city lights. Mary Austin was writing of this country when she said, "It is hard to escape the sense of mastery as the stars move in the wide clear heavens to risings and settings unobserved. They look large and near and palpitant; as if they moved on some stately service not necessary to declare. Wheeling to their stations in the sky, they make the poor world-fret of no account."
Stamped in black ink on reverse with Curtis Phillips' information.
Written in pencil on reverse: #1