Word: dobrowen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bushy-haired Russian conductor tensely beating time, an elfin little Spaniard playing the piano and a lot of white-gloved ladies proudly patting their hands together marked the opening of the San Francisco Symphony last week. The conductor was Issai Dobrowen who rang in a flashy performance of a Tschaikowsky symphony. The pianist was José Iturbi who would have dearly loved to conduct the orchestra himself. The ladies were proud because many of them had worked hard to raise the guarantee necessary to save the Symphony for San Francisco. But with all their efforts the orchestra remained last week...
Soon, for seven weeks, the Philadelphia Orchestra will have a young Russian guest conductor utterly unlike Eugene Ormandy. Crinkly-haired Issay Dobrowen...
...California long enough this autumn to open the symphony season in San Francisco's new War Memorial Opera House, to win $25 from the beating California gave Stanford at football. Then he hurried to Manhattan where he scored the quick success that San Franciscans had prophesied for him. Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) gets dynamic effects by constantly fluttering his left hand, tossing his black head, whipping the air nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which...
Conductor Hertz was ousted two years ago. Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron imported. But the orchestra has continued to drift nearer & nearer the rocks through lack of general support...
...Francisco last year Conductor Dobrowen gave tense, dynamic performances which made him more popular than quiet Basil Cameron. This year many of his concerts have been ragged because of hurried rehearsals. But San Francisco's music-wise feel that he will do well with his brief Manhattan engagement. New audiences inspire him. He will have an orchestra all trained for him, able to respond instantly to his quick, intuitive command. Conductor Dobrowen hates plodding but his intuitions are usually correct. He is a good fisherman, knows when to strike. Other musicians may have landed bigger muskellunge than...