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...Margaret Bourke-White photos of a Russian Woman Shock Brigadier, a Moscow streetcar conductor, Stalin's great-aunt. Worcester's Museum of Natural History put on a show of Russian posters. The Public Library plugged books on Russia. The Art Museum gave a gallery to Marc Chagall, Ossip Zadkine. Boris Grigoriev. Women's clubs listened to talks on Russia; school children heard about Russia, wrote themes on Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Worcester & the World | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Married. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, 51, only one of Mark Twain's four daughters to survive him; and Jacques Samossoud, 53, Russian-born conductor; in Hollywood. Her husband for 27 years was Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit Symphony's Russian-born pianist-conductor, who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The U.S. Gets Musical | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...Horace Elgin Dodge), vice president of the Detroit Symphony, has given it some $1,000,000 in 20 years, but this year felt obliged to reduce her contribution from $50,000 to $30,000-top donation in the drive. Moreover, the Symphony has sadly missed its late, lionized Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, whose successors, Coconductors Victor Kolar and Franco Ghione, are competent but barely kittenized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cups and Hats | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...told reporters a story: Long before Herr Walter changed his residence for political reasons, he conducted a series of Munich concerts attended by a music-lover who last week changed his name for religious reasons, Eugenio Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered in someone's ear. In not much more time than it takes to play a Bruckner symphony, Gabrilowitsch was free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Relief Men | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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