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...Daniel Gregory Mason, Professor Seth Bingham and Dr. Frank Damrosch, Conductor Walter's brother, made the decision by reading the score. But until last week it seemed as though the $1,800 would be Composer Bacon's only return. His Symphony was never played until Conductor Issai Dobrowen forgot Tchaikovsky long enough to give it place of honor on the week's San Francisco Symphony program...
...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...