Ted Malone Collection

The Metropolitan Opera audience (white women and men) looks on, some still approaching their seats, as Pierre Monteaux conducts.

The Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, all white men in tuxedos, stand on stage in Carnegie Hall in New York. Possibly Dimitri Mitropoulos is the conductor.

Rockefeller Center's Choristers sing as they stand in front of the Prometheus sculpture created by Paul Manship. A crowd watches from above on the lower plaza of the Rockefeller Center. Flags from...