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...Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist-conductor. Mus.D...
...engagements will make him a big earner this year along with Pianist Jose Iturbi who is giving 68 concerts at an even more reasonable figure. Violinists Albert Spalding and Efrem Zimbalist have profitably kept their fees down. So have Pianists Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Soprano Florence Austral, Contralto Sigrid Onegin...
German Bruno Walter will conduct the Philharmonic for seven weeks, beginning in mid-January. But for the next few weeks substitutes were needed. The choice of Detroit's Ossip Gabrilowitsch and of Hans Lange, the Philharmonic's assistant conductor, surprised no one. The engagement of Vladimir Golschmann for Christmas week aroused controversy, as did the Philadelphia Orchestra's engagement of Eugene Ormandy, another beneficiary of Toscanini's glass arm, now permanently established in Minneapolis (TIME...
...language with the fancy names "mortician," "public relations counsel," "realtor," "beautician." A profession which has never needed a prop to elegance and dignity is Music, yet last week there came a musician's lament. A letter to proud Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra from sensitive Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony was published. Excerpt...
...that he will never be able to stand the shock!" Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony cancelled a contract to conduct a June festival at La Scala in Milan, called the incident ''an insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich to Milan. Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, who had also cancelled La Scala contracts, visited Toscanini and sent off an indignant signed article to the New York Times. But one able conductor, Fritz Reiner, who until this year led the Cincinnati Symphony, amiably complied with vociferous requests and performed the two patriotic...