A Living Hall of Fame of Music: Leopold Auer. At the gala given at Carnegie Hall to Celebrate his Eightieth Birthday, With Some of His Most Famous Pupils and Others Who Took Part in the Program. They Are, Left to Right: Standing, Joseph Achron, Efrem Zimbalist, Ossip Gabrilowtsch, Serge Rachmoninoff, Joseph Hoffman and Paul Stassievitch. Seated, Leopold Auer and Jascha Jeifetz. August 28, 1925.
Composer Joseph Achron as a young man in St. Petersburg.
Joseph Achron with Otto Klemperer (right). Klemperer conducted the premiers of Achron's second and third violin concertos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Joseph Achron (right) with members of the cast of The Golem. H. Leivick (center), New York. Achron composed incidental music for the play The Golem, which he later turned into an orchestral suite.
Joseph Achron with brother, Isidore, at the piano. Date unknown.
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