Anshel Brusilow

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Anshel Brusilow (born August 14, 1928 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † January 15, 2018 ) was an American violinist and conductor . He was initially a concertmaster a . a. active with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra . From 1970 to 1973 he was a conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra . He then directed orchestral studies at North Texas State University and Southern Methodist University .

Life

Brusilow was born in Philadelphia in 1928 as the son of Ukrainian- Jewish immigrants. At the age of five he received his first violin lessons from William Happich, later he was tutored by his father. At the age of eleven he began studying the violin (1939–1943) with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He then studied with the violinist Jani Szántó at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (diploma 1947). At the age of sixteen (1944) he became Pierre Monteux's youngest conducting student .

In 1944 he made his debut as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy . He later performed with the orchestras of Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Boston. In 1949 he reached fourth place in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin competition . In 1951 he was responsible for the world premiere of Yardumian's Violin Concerto. In 1954/55 he was concertmaster and deputy conductor of the New Orleans Symphony under Alexander Hilsberg . In 1955 he became assistant concertmaster with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell . From 1959 to 1966 he moved as concertmaster to the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. He played u. a. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons , Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Strauss' Ein Heldenleben . Brusilow played on a 1743 Guarnerius del Gesu until 1968 .

In 1961 he founded the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, which he conducted until 1965. From 1966 to 1968 he was director of the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, with which he recorded several records for RCA Victor . In 1970/71 he was resident conductor and from 1971 to 1973 managing director and conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra . He took the orchestra to South and Central America for the first time. He also initiated the Dallasound pop series, in which the orchestra collaborated with Bill Holcombe . From 1992 to 2012 he was music director and conductor of the Richardson Symphony Orchestra in Texas.

Brusilow was an orchestral director at the College of Music at North Texas State University (later University of North Texas) in Denton (1973-1982 and 1989-2008). There he also built the UNT Chamber Orchestra. From 1982 to 1989 he was an orchestral director at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

He was a member of the Delta Omicron musicians' association . Brusilow was married and the father of three children.

In his honor, the $ 1 million Anshel Brusilow Chair in Orchestral Conducting was donated in 2009 .

Fonts (selection)

  • With Robin Underdahl: Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy . University of North Texas Press, Denton 2015, ISBN 978-1-57441-613-8 .

literature

  • Brusilow, Anshel . In: Emily Freeman Brown: A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, ISBN 978-0-8108-8400-7 , p. 49.
  • Brusilow, Anshel . In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , p. 99.
  • Robert Paul Kolt:  Brusilow, Anshel. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • Brusilow, Anshel . In: Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 109 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death of 'Shoot the Conductor' Concertmaster on slippedics.com on January 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Brusilow, Anshel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brusilowski, Anshel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 2018