Word: izler
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Chicago Woman's Symphony has had one guest conductor after another, with results that critics found scarcely an improvement on the Sundstrom era. But last week it sported a brand-new conductor, hoped this one was for keeps. This time the conductor was a man: pint-sized, cadaverous Izler Solomon (TIME, March 27). Mr. Solomon started by firing six women, cowed five more into resigning, added 15 new players. Chicago wits nicknamed the orchestra "Solomon and his Wives," "87 Girls and a Man." But when Solomon led his black-dressed musical harem through Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Chicago...
Congratulations and felicitations on the publicity given Izler Solomon in the Music section of TIME, March 27. I've been wondering how long it would be before wide-awake TIME tumbled to the fact that a first-rank American conductor was maturing in Chicago...
...behind the Illinois Symphony's sudden artistic and box-office success is no imported, caviar-fed maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving...