Word: gabrilowitsch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit's Orchestra Hall, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the first concert of its 13th season before a friendly, congenial audience that radiated enthusiasm over the orchestra, the program and Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Beethoven and Brahms wrote the important music for the evening-the Lenore Overture No. 3, and Brahms' First Symphony in C Minor with its tender upward sweep of strings, the sombre throbbing of basses and tympanums, bravely building, mellow, wise. Debussy and Liszt furnished the spice- Nuages and Fêtes, vague, lovely, and the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, vigorous, breathless. Conductor Gabrilowitsch did his work...
...fact that it played so little 18th Century music; that the Boston Symphony, under Serge Kousseviyzky, led in 20th Century music, with Chicago next under Frederick Stock, and the New York Symphony next. Chicago has played the greatest proportion of the classics, with Philadelphia next; and Detroit, under Ossip Gabrilowitsch, leads in the 19th Century. The percentages...
...Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first public concert. With it appeared as soloist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, brilliant young Russian pianist, then making his first U.S. tour. Last week the same orchestra, the same soloist were heard again in Manhattan. Because he felt himself a comparative newcomer, Leopold Stokowski handed his stick to Concertmaster Thaddeus Rich who, a better conductor than most concertmasters, led the first number. Then Mr. Gabrilowitsch, a more mature and no less brilliant artist than he was 25 years ago, sonorously assisted in interpreting the rugged, lordly and immortal Tschaikowsky's B-flat Minor Concerto...
...Theodore Leschetizky, four times married, died in 1915. Among his one-time pupils are Paderewski, Hambourg, Gabrilowitsch, Moiseiwitch, Brailowsky, Essipov, Friedman, Leginska...
...Gabrilowitsch is a virtuoso of rare repute. He is an accomplished pianist and an equally well-known conductor. He was a pupil of Rubinstein. Since 1900, he has entertained many thousands in this country, both as a pianist and since 1918 as director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He will play a classical program including compositions of Handel, Bach, and Beethoven...