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Detroit's opening concert was scheduled to present Ossip Gabrilowitsch as soloist as well as conductor. Associate Victor Kolar will have charge during Gabrilowitsch's tenure in Philadelphia (see above). A tour will take in several college towns...
Detroit. While Philadelphia, Hollywood, and Manhattan were turning out for their summer's opening concerts. Detroit's Symphony Orchestra was well into its third week of playing. Under the baton of Victor Kolar, Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch's able associate, the Detroit musicians drew large throngs to the "shell" stadium on famed Belle Isle...
...first order, famed since he began working in Detroit (1918) as an able conductor. His performance last week was to conduct Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's brisk Concerto in D, followed with an uneven performance of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Then, handing his baton to capable Victor Kolar, he seated himself at the piano, played Mozart's D Minor Concerto with such expert tenderness as to make many in the audience almost regret that he had used up any of his time conducting...
...Detroit. Instead he took leave of absence and guest-conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. This year he will go again to Philadelphia for the few mid-season weeks when Leopold Stokowski takes his holiday. Substitutes then in Detroit will be his able Assistant Conductor Victor Kolar and Guests Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari...
...orchestras, so classified on the basis of schedules, budgets and excellence, begin their seasons soon. They are, with their conductors, the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky; the Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock; the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra, Eugene Goossens...