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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Boris Christoff; the Russian Choirs of Paris and the French National Radio Orchestra, conducted by Issay Dobrowen; H.M.V., 4 LPs). Bulgarian Basso Christoff has been denied a visa to the U.S. (he flunked his McCarran test), but, from the recorded sound of his voice, he belongs with the very best of living bassos. Christoff gives the role of Boris magnificent power and dignity as well as splendid singing, and the whole production is outstanding...
...Palestine Symphony to rank soon among the first four orchestras in the world. Impresario Huberman is proud to have engaged for the forthcoming season such guest artists as Violinist Adolf Busch and Cellist Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay Dobrowen, former conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, onetime director of the Frankfort Opera, and Michael Taube, former leader of famed German ensembles, will replace him on Jewry's proudest podium...
...first time in 23 years San Francisco went through a winter without a symphony orchestra. The Musical Association was unable to raise funds sufficient even for the promised twelve-week season. The downhearted musicians refused to play for less. Conductor Issai Dobrowen, flashy young Russian Jew, pocketed the $12,000 owed him by contract and departed in March for Oslo without having raised a baton. But music-loving San Francisco, which three years ago came to the fore with a magnificent new municipal opera house, was unwilling to admit defeat...
...months ago the city government voted $10,000 for five popular-priced concerts, picked as conductor reliable old Alfred Hertz, who was ousted from his Symphony job five years ago when Dobrowen was engaged. Last week San Franciscans again rose to the occasion, voted $3,000-to-47,000 for a symphony subsidy expected to yield $35,000 a year. To be raised by a tax of ½% per $100 of assessed property, the subsidy will be administered by the City Art Commission and the Musical Association. The Association will provide $35,000 more to guarantee at least...
...Francisco found its home talent gratifying. For brevity's sake Conductor Dobrowen had omitted the first movement but young Alexander Fried, San Francisco's most level-headed critic (Chronicle), found that the slow second movement had "emotional nobility" in spite of the instrumentation's technical shortcomings, that its jazzy third movement has "as just a place in a Yankee Symphony of this generation as a minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco...