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Alexander Hilsberg is a man who knows how to bide his time. For 25 years he played his violin in the Philadelphia Orchestra, the last 19 as concertmaster. Most of that time, he was wishing he were a conductor. Says patient Alex Hilsberg: "Each man must wait his call...
...Hilsberg's first important call came in 1946, when he substituted for ailing Eugene Ormandy in a Carnegie Hall concert, and made a hit with the tough Manhattan critics. By last week, 51-year-old Alex Hilsberg was a full-fledged, and very busy, conductor...
...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...
...swift graceful dash for the podium, the svelte back he turned, the fine graceful hands which seem to mold every phrase of the music that is played. The orchestramen seemed like cogs in a magic wheel, but within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker, father of seven daughters. Two Spanish Torellos play in the double-bass section. Father Anton is an oldster in the Orchestra. His son Carl is there to follow...
...Ignace Hilsberg will be soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor, at its concert to be held tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock. The program follows...