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Concerts by Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony have been dull this season. Conductor Willem Mengelberg seemed sleepy. The aging Walter Damrosch was uninspired. Then, because Sir Thomas Beecham was unable to come, because Toscanini was late, there followed a string of substitute conductors - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Fritz Reiner, Arthur Honegger, Hans Lange, Bernardino Molinari. The results were adequate but not memorable. Yet the houses were sold-out. Subscribers had bought in advance for the entire season so that they should by no sorry slip miss Toscanini...
There are flippants who think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...
...Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Sibelius' "Finlandia." He gave them a novelty-Roussel's Concerto, pleasant and unimportant. Philadelphians held their thumbs and waited. Stokowski is to be with them until late November, back again in late March. Able guest conductors are to be sandwiched in between- Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Bernardino Molinari, Sir Thomas Beecham, Clemens Krauss from Frankfurt (in his U. S. debut). For most Philadelphians, however, only Stokowski can make big music, big surprises...
...sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...
...Ossip Gabrilowitsch Vladimir De Pachmann