Object Details
- publisher
- Moss and Suchin Corporation
- Moss and Suchin Corporation
- Description
- Poster advertising Phyllis Diller’s solo piano performance with various symphony orchestras titled The Symphonic Phyllis Diller. The opera coat that Diller is wearing in the photograph is also in NMAH’s collection (Catalog Number 2003.0289.01).
- 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 The Symphonic Phyllis Diller. During these performances she would seriously perform pieces by Beethoven, Bach, and others as a solo pianist with an orchestra while integrating comedic elements.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Phyllis Diller
- ID Number
- 2003.0289.40
- accession number
- 2003.0289
- catalog number
- 2003.0289.40
- Object Name
- Poster
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in x 17 in; 27.94 cm x 43.18 cm
- place made
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Phyllis Diller
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Humor
- Comedians
- Music
- Record ID
- nmah_1247729
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-a151-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
