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...Herbert Zipper is remembered by thousands for his yearly concerts in Baguio and Manila. He developed talent amongst the Filipinos, and was loved and respected by his musicians and his audiences as a brilliant man who knew our tastes and never tried to cram anything down our throats. He seems to be following the same pattern in Brooklyn [TIME, March...
...year later, back home in Brooklyn, they heard that Conductor Zipper was in the U.S. on a cultural mission for the Philippines. They buttonholed him with a proposition: if they could form a Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, would he stay and conduct it? Said 45-year-old Herbert Zipper: "They were so earnest . . . besides, it was a creative challenge." He stayed...
...starlit night four years ago, in the ruins of Santa Cruz Church, the Manila Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since the Japanese invasion. In the audience were eight G.I.s from Brooklyn who never forgot the concert or its conductor: Vienna-born Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had survived Hitler's Dachau and Buchenwald, and two of Tojo's Philippine hellholes...
Conductor Zipper had drilled his 86 musicians and some borrowed singers (including the Metropolitan's Regina Resnik) in part I of the fourth act of Verdi's Don Carlos, which had not been performed in New York for 26 years...
...minutes in sheer local pride before the orchestra even played a note. A well-played Beethoven Fifth had them applauding at the end of each movement, but the Don Carlos brought down the house. Then came a pranking Till Eulenspiegel and (for an encore) one of Conductor Zipper's native Viennese waltzes. Brooklyn loved it. Breathed perspiring Conductor Zipper: "I'm so grateful...