Word: schang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is no doubt that the taste of the companies-and of the customers-is gradually improving. Says Columbia Artists President Frederick C. Schang Jr.: "They start listening to Mantovani. In time they want Kostelanetz, which is a step up. or maybe the Boston Pops. Then maybe they will venture on to a big-time symphony orchestra playing Tchaikovsky. After that, one of these days, they'll even go for Beethoven-and they are caught. That's the way it's done in this country...
Columbia President Frederick C. Schang Jr. said the practices charged had stopped seven years ago. Nevertheless, in a New York U.S. District Court, the agencies pleaded nolo contendere to the criminal suit, and entered into a consent decree with respect to the civil. The decree restrained them "from allocating or dividing territories" and from "interfering with competition." The court also administered a judicial slap on the wrist: fines of $10,000 for Columbia's Community Concerts, $2,000 apiece for the others...
This cultural Iron Curtain has long piqued Frederick C. Schang Jr.. president of Columbia Artists Management Inc., who thought the Soviet stars would make a smash hit in the U.S. if they could only be coaxed away from home at the "psychological moment." In 1939 he dickered with Georgy N. Zarubin, Soviet Commissioner to the New York World's Fair, and signed up a team of seven musicians, including Oistrakh and Gilels. He even booked Carnegie Hall for six evenings. Then the U.S.S.R. signed its nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, and the scheme went up in smoke...
...Manager Schang bided his time while U.S.-Russian relations blew hot and blew cold until, about a year ago, the Soviets joined UNESCO. That, decided Schang, meant a major policy shift, and he promptly opened negotiations with the Soviet embassy in Washington to import Russian musicians. His cause was helped by the fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague...
...week's end, Schang was confident that "Gilels is in the bag." Oistrakh may come next spring, if international tempos remain steady. By that time, Schang hopes to see some of his top clients-Conductors Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eugene Ormandy and Leopold Stokowski, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Bass Baritone George London-solidly booked for concerts in Russia...