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Most conductors know how to play some kind of musical instrument but few musicians are equally good at both playing and conducting. No exception was the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Though Detroiters remember him as the high-collared, fidgety conductor of their Detroit Symphony, the musical world remembers him primarily as one of the great pianists of his generation...
Most symphonic conductors limit their public activity to conducting. It has been hinted that some are not good enough musicians to do anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure...
...considerable magnificence on Monroe Street in the residential part of town. Its severely Hellenic design is carried through to the two new wings and the auditorium, which is called the "peristyle" and is a fairly exact reproduction of a Greek outdoor theatre. Detroit's late symphony conductor. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, thought its acoustics unsurpassed in the U. S.. and Theatre Critic fohn Mason Brown shared the transports of classical scholars when it was opened in 1933. The Museum's collection is as exceptional as its building. Both are the fruit of the artistic interests of Toledo...
...Died, Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch, 58, famed Russian-born pianist, husband of Mark Twain's talented daughter Clara Clemens; since 1918 conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; after long illness; in Detroit...
During the Philharmonic Brahms cycle, New Yorkers and radio listeners will hear Brahms' three other great symphonies. They will also hear the three concertos played by Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who have learned to play as Brahms intended, not with a show of fireworks, but as if their instruments belonged in the orchestra. The German Requiem will offer proof of Brahms' simplicity. Bach was a Lutheran but for his great mass he chose the Latin of the Catholic liturgy. The Protestant Brahms chose a homely, Biblical text and his words are German...