Word: gusikoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return of Mr. Stokowski had nothing whatsoever to do with the highly publicized dismissal of Isadore Gusikoff, first cellist of the Orchestra...
...Cellist Gusikoff was not dismissed by Mr. Ormandy "because Gusikoff 'made him nervous...
...other men resigned in sympathy." . . . These resignations were in no way connected with Gusikoff's dismissal...
...Your reference to my resignation: "he resigned too" . . . creates the most unfortunate and utterly inescapable inference that my resignation was linked with Mr. Gusikoff's dismissal and with lack of faith in Mr. Ormandy. You magnify this inference by putting in my mouth a quote I never said ("Things aren't like they used...
...thing that did it was a short return engagement of their beloved onetime musical director, Leopold Stokowski. First storm-signals flew when word leaked out that Conductor Ormandy had fired fuzzy-headed first cellist, Isadore Gusikoff, because Gusikoff "made him nervous." Cellist Gusikoff promptly sued for the rest of his season's pay, proudly admitted that he had conducted a "silence strike" while sitting in the orchestra, accused Conductor...