Word: gabrilowitsch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gabrilowitsch Protests...
...help celebrate the centenary of Franz Schubert's death, the Columbia Phonograph Co. has offered prizes* to the composers who submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece...
...York Symphony Conductors. Guest conductors of the New York Symphony Orchestra were announced: Fritz Busch (Dresden Opera House), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit Symphony), Walter Damrosch (onetime regular conductor), Maurice Ravel (French composer), Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Madrid Symphony...
Last week Arthur Judson, manager, announced six guest conductors of international reputation: Fritz Reiner (Cincinnati Symphony), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit Symphony), Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Frederick Stock (Chicago Symphony), Sir Thomas Beecham (London Symphony), Pierre Monteux (onetime of the Boston Symphony...
Though officially retired (TIME, Dec. 27), scholarly Walter Damrosch, for 42 years conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra will reappear next year at his oldtime stand in Carnegie Hall as a guest conductor. Other guests will be Conductors Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera and Ossip Gabrilowitsch of Detroit. And last week the Symphony Society announced who its fourth guest would be-darkly handsome Clemens Krauss, conductor-director of municipal opera at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Herr Krauss, who looks more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame...