Word: hilsberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico City, nearing the end of a 10,000-mile tour through Latin America, Conductor Alexander Hilsberg and the New Orleans Symphony gave a concert at the unmusical hour of 11:15 a.m., but the big (capacity: 3,700) Teatro Metropolitan was nearly full, and by the final chord of Stravinsky's Fire Bird Suite, the crowd was up and whooping an ovation. The only reason the audience let the orchestra quit after three encores was that it was time for the bullfights. The New Orleans musicians had left their musical mark on 22 cities and towns from Lima...
...Benjamin's further explanation: "Hundreds of thousands of Americans bring work home at night. Tranquil music is the kind that can be listened to as one works-with perhaps inspirationa results."* In New Orleans last week, after a board of judges had weeded through 72 entries. Conductor Alexander Hilsberg led his Philharmonic-Symphony in the prizewinning score...
Bernstein: Three Dances from "Fancy Free" (Philadelphia Orchestra "Pops" conducted by Alexander Hilsberg; Columbia). Frothy music, but the month's most vibrant recording...
...Alex Hilsberg thinks the waiting did him good. After 25 years spent scraping an acquaintance with the classics, he shuns "interpretations" of them, finds his greatest satisfaction (as does Toscanini) in clean and powerful renderings of what the composer wrote. NBC listeners last week found that even Dvorak's done-to-death "New World" Symphony sounded fresh and clear...
...Hilsberg got his early violin training in the same St. Petersburg prodigy factory that turned out Heifetz and Milstein. But he has no regrets that he did not contiue a career of concert fiddling. "I could Vt stand up there and play again and again the Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms [concerti]. That is like being a painter and being handed a palette with only a few colors. Conducting, you have all the colors you could possibly want...