Word: mischakoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concertmaster, that necessarily capable violinist who sits near the conductor, acts as his working assistant, is Mischa Mischakoff, onetime concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, founder of a string quartet which for twelve years bore his name, owner of a $50,000 Stradivarius. The rest of the orchestra is well up to his high...
...Chicago Orchestra. After the opening night, Sir Ernest MacMillan of the Toronto Symphony took up his baton. Other conductors scheduled: Swiss Ernest Ansermet, Hans Kindler of Washington's National Symphony, Hans Lange, St. Louis' Vladimir Golschmann, Cincinnati's Fritz Reiner. On July 17 at Ravinia, Mischa Mischakoff, recently made concertmaster of the NBC Orchestra (TIME, May 10), will play his last for Chicago...
...Mischa Mischakoff, 42, seems cut out for a concertmaster. He was such a fine violinist at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg that, after the Revolution, he won a professorship to the Government Conservatory. He was only 24 when the Moscow 'Grand Opera asked him to be its first violin. Two years later he lit out of Russia, went to Manhattan, placed first in a contest of 500 violinists and got a chance to solo with the Philharmonic. Walter Damrosch made Mischakoff concertmaster of the New York Symphony, now defunct. Stokowski took him to Philadelphia, whence Frederick Stock...
Music is real, music is earnest to Mischa Mischakoff. He teaches 22 pupils at the American Conservatory of Music, runs his own string quartet. He plays the piano almost as well as the violin. Students dread Mischakoff's caustic tongue but know that, at parties, he is a good fellow. A bachelor, he likes swimming, plays ping-pong gladly and badly, appears with hair mussed and bushy, clothes drooping as though too big for him. As a violin trader he is ready, shrewd, almost always wins. He regrets leaving Chicago but says he could not resist...
...concertmaster is to an orchestra what the stroke oar is to a crew. He sits closest to the conductor (coxswain), takes his orders direct, sets an example to the other players. NBC sent for Mischakoff because, when Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct Radio's proudest symphonic programs, the NBC Orchestra must have a stroke of the calibre to which the old maestro is accustomed...