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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...
...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...
TIME did not say that NBC 'enticed" Hornist Berv, Contrabassist Torello and Trombonist Gusikoff, merely stated that Philadelphia Orchestra's Manager Alfred Reginald Allen had "caught [them] ... in the act of reaching for NBC contracts...
...Philadelphia newshawks revealed that Manager Allen had caught at least three Philadelphia Orchestra men in the act of reaching for XBC contracts. A six-months-notice clause in their contracts (upheld by American Federation of Musicians' President Joseph N. Weber at a special Manhattan conference) foiled Trombonist Charles Gusikoff and Contrabassist Anton Torello. But prized Horn Player Arthur I. Berv got loose, signed up with NBC. Oboist Tabuteau and Flutist Kincaid, whose Philadelphia salaries are rumored to be in the neighborhood of $300 per week, would not say whether they had been tempted, indicated they would stay where they...
...well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; and 7) Rumania's Georges Enesco. To Klemperer went the job of rebuilding the new orchestra. He heard auditions, reshuffled the old personnel, sweated his musicians into top-notch form, followed with a series of performances that brought stolid Pittsburgh audiences to their...