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...first time in 23 years San Francisco went through a winter without a symphony orchestra. The Musical Association was unable to raise funds sufficient even for the promised twelve-week season. The downhearted musicians refused to play for less. Conductor Issai Dobrowen, flashy young Russian Jew, pocketed the $12,000 owed him by contract and departed in March for Oslo without having raised a baton. But music-loving San Francisco, which three years ago came to the fore with a magnificent new municipal opera house, was unwilling to admit defeat...
...yield $35,000 a year. To be raised by a tax of ½% per $100 of assessed property, the subsidy will be administered by the City Art Commission and the Musical Association. The Association will provide $35,000 more to guarantee at least a 16-week season. Neither Issai Dobrowen nor popular Alfred Hertz is likely to conduct...
...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...
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...