Poster for <i>The Symphonic Phyllis Diller</i>
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content: Moss and Suchin Corporation
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content: Moss and Suchin Corporation
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content: Poster advertising Phyllis Diller’s solo piano performance with various symphony orchestras titled <i>The Symphonic Phyllis Diller</i>. The opera coat that Diller is wearing in the photograph is also in NMAH’s collection (Catalog Number 2003.0289.01).
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content: Diller, while known for her stand-up comedy, was also an accomplished pianist. After graduating high school, Diller studied piano for three years at the Sherwood Conservatory of Music (at Columbia College Chicago), but eventually decided against a career in music. From 1971 to 1982 Diller performed with over 100 symphony orchestras across the United States and Canada in the show called <i>The Symphonic Phyllis Diller</i>. During these performances she would seriously perform pieces by Beethoven, Bach, and others as a solo pianist with an orchestra while integrating comedic elements.
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label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Humor
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content: Comedians
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content: Music
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Phyllis Diller
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content: Gift of Phyllis Diller
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2003.0289.40
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content: 2003.0289
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content: 2003.0289.40
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content: Poster
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content: overall: 11 in x 17 in; 27.94 cm x 43.18 cm