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...Present were Conductors Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Walter Damrosch, Artur Bodansky, Ernest Schelling, Composers Deems Taylor, George Gershwin, Arthur Shepherd, Aaron Copland, Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (librettist of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbus...
Somewhat in the manner of Leopold Stokowski, who is constantly telling his audiences how to deport themselves. Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch last week suggested that people wear dark clothing for the performance of Bach's Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew given in Philadelphia with stage and choristers draped in black. Philadelphians take conductors' orders with remarkable grace. Most of them did as little Mr. Gabrilo-witsch asked. But one Ellen Winsor of Haverford objected, said that Gabrilo- witsch was out-churching the churches, that rather than waste time considering their raiment people would do better...
...Ossip Gabrilowitsch: Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...
Singer Clara Clemens, wife of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and only one of Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens' four daughters to survive him, now a lecturer and writer (My Father*) on her father's life, revealed that when she faces a public from the platform, she imagines herself to be an alligator because the alligator basking in the sun is her idea of imperviousness to environment personified. "And not only alligators! If you want to be soft, think of yourself as a rose. If you want to be hard, unchanging, think of a sphinx...
...Paris came Ernest Schelling, Jose Iturbi, Ignace Jan Paderewski; on the Columbus, Walter Gieseking; on the Mauretania, Alexander Brailowsky. Good also for grapes, apples and upland game birds, this year will be a pianists' year in the U. S. Already scheduled for recitals are Josef Hofmann, Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Italian Carlo Zecchi will make his U. S. debut in January. But the three men sure to attract greatest attention, sure to be the most newsworthy, are Paderewski, Iturbi, Gieseking...