Nathan Abas

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Nathan Abas (born October 23, 1896 in Amsterdam , North Holland , the Netherlands , † June 1, 1980 in Palm Springs , Riverside County , California , United States ) was an American violinist, music teacher and conductor of Dutch descent. He became known as a classical music broadcasting pioneer, California Area Director of the Federal Music Project FMP of the Works Progress Administration WPA, conductor of the Northern California WPA Symphony Orchestra, and founder of the Abas String Quartet and concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra .

Life

Family and time in the Netherlands until 1917

Nathan Aba's parents were the Jewish diamond cutter Jacob Abas (1869–1942), who was born in Amsterdam and died in Auschwitz , and his wife Klara Abas (1871–1929). His younger brother was Solomon Abas . Both had three other siblings Abraham, Dina and Sara. Nathan Abas studied violin at the Amsterdam Conservatory . At the age of 15 he became a member of the Concertgebouw Orchestra . From 1914 he was principal violinist there. Here he played under Willem Mengelberg . He also performed as a soloist at the Concertgebouw . On December 26, 1916, he played the Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 by Camille Saint-Saëns under the direction of the Dutch conductor Evert Cornelis (1884–1931). In 1917 Abas founded the Concergebouw-Strijkkwartet, in which he played the first violin. In April 1917 they played concerts before Abas left Rotterdam on the ship Noordam for New York City .

New York, 1917 to 1927

He arrived in Ellis Island on May 30, 1917. He married Cornelia Cora Gomperts (1893–1974) on Ellis Island . In 1922 their daughter Betty Abas (1922–2001) was born in New York. In the first few years he made a living as a violinist and played in cinemas and dance halls. He attended the Institute of Musical Art . Here he received lessons from the conductor Frank Damrosch and the violinist Franz Kneisel (1865–1926). There he met Louis Kaufman (1905–1994), who also belonged to Kneisel's violin class. Abas performed in the New York area as a chamber musician and soloist. In a concert on March 2, 1924, Abas played the Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major op.100 by Johannes Brahms and the Violin Sonata by Guillaume Lekeu with the Friends of Chamber Music in Philadelphia . During this time, radio opened up as a field of activity for him. Beginning in April 1924, Luncheon Concerts with the Pennsylvania Concert Orchestra under the direction of Abas were broadcast on Mondays from the WJZ station on Mondays from the Hotel Pennsylvania on 7th Avenue in New York City. On Sunday, May 18, 1924, WJZ broadcast an evening concert with the Nathan Abas' Orchestra. From then on, concerts with the Pennsylvania Concert Orchestra or an ensemble called Nathan Abas (Concert) Orchestra were broadcast regularly on Sunday evenings . Concerts with various ensembles led by Abas were then broadcast regularly until February 1926. Abas also taught at the New York Institute of Music during this time .

San Francisco, from 1927

In 1927 he went to San Francisco to convalesce after a long illness. Here he founded the Abas String Quartet as first violinist in August 1927 . In addition to Abas, the quartet consisted of three members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , the solo cellist Michael Penha, the solo violist Romain Verney and the violinist Julian Brodetsky. The quartet's first radio appearance took place on September 7, 1927 at a concert on the radio station KPO. On October 2 and 7, 1927, solo programs with Abas were broadcast at KPO. The first concert of the quartet took place on October 13, 1927 as part of a series of concerts by The Pacific Musical Society in San Francisco. During October 1927 the Abas String Quartet gave concerts on the radio station KPO. From 1927 to 1931 Abas gained a certain prominence through almost weekly radio appearances at the radio station KPO with the quartet, as a soloist and as a conductor. At these radio concerts he appeared with various musicians, for example with the organist Uda Waldrop (1885–1951). In the summer of 1927, the Standard Oil Company organized a symphony orchestra, mostly composed of musicians from the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , and named it the Standard Oil Symphony Orchestra. Abas became musical director and was responsible for programming the Standard Symphony Hour, a regular weekly program, for six years. The program was first broadcast on October 23, 1927. The Standard Oil Symphony Orchestra was regularly conducted by him, for example in radio broadcasts of December 25, 1927 and January 15, 1928 with the Unfinished , the overture to Le roi l'a dit by Léo Delibes and a Hungarian rhapsody with Michel Penha as cello soloist . In 1928 he acquired a violin from Rembert Rudolph Wurlitzer (1904–1963), built by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1751. In September 1929 Abas was concertmaster of the San Francisco Opera Association for three years and also directed the symphony orchestra of the KPO. In the same year he became a citizen of the United States and became a member of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. In August 1930 he was appointed as Robert Pollock's successor to head the violin department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music . One of his students was ten year old Isaac Stern . Other students were Cicely Edmunds (1916-1998), Arthur Bryon, Marilyn Doty and Nancy Ellsworth. Abas also directed the conservatory orchestra. In April 1931 he was appointed successor to the outgoing concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Mishel Piastro , who had received an engagement with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He held this position in the 1931/32 season. In the first concert of the season, in which he was introduced as concertmaster, he played the solo part in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 6 in E flat major, K. 268 . After only one season he went back to the radio. He succeeded Rex Dunn as musical director of NBC San Francisco. From the end of 1932 he had more frequent radio appearances here, now with an ensemble called the Nathan Abas Orchestra . During this time, he had postponed work with the Abas String Quartet as concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and as conductor of the NBC Orchestra . After he was divorced from Cora Gomperts, he married Elsa Krotazyner (1907-1995) in 1933.

Los Angeles, from 1934

In 1934 he moved from NBC San Francisco to Los Angeles. Here he revived the Abas String Quartet. In 1935 and 1936 he performed Arnold Schönberg's first three string quartets with the Abas String Quartet at local concerts and at his lectures at the University of Southern California . In October and November 1936 he gave concerts with the quartet in the Guggenheim Hall at the University of Washington . In 1937 he was concertmaster of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association for one season. He also went on concert tours as a violin soloist. In the concert season 1937/38 he gave several concerts with the pianist Berthe Poncy Jacobson outside of Los Angeles. On February 23, 1938, he played the violin sonata in F major by Alexander Tscherepnin , the violin sonata by Claude Debussy and the violin sonata No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven at a chamber concert organized by the School of Music in Washington . A concert in the concert series Sonata Recitals 1937/38 in Vancouver is also documented. In 1938 Abas was first director of the Northern California District of the WPA's FMP , later the Northern California Music Project. Later he was responsible for all of California. In this capacity he was also the conductor of the Northern California WPA Symphony Orchestra . This orchestra was founded by the WPA in order to create a job opportunity for unemployed musicians in times of the economic crisis and supported with federal funds. Abas led the orchestra in over 400 concerts in small California towns that did not have their own symphony orchestra in order to be able to offer a certain diversion to the population in times of crisis and war by offering a cultural infrastructure. Works from the standard symphonic repertoire were performed, but contemporary music was also offered a platform. On November 8, 1940, he played the US premiere of Scaramouche with the orchestra in the presence of the composer Darius Milhaud and on August 1, 1942 at the opening concert of the 19th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Berkeley, the world premiere of A Symphonic Scetch [Eine symphonic sketch] by Arthur Kreutz (1906–1991) In this concert he and his orchestra performed the piano concerto by Karol Rathaus , the viola concerto by Nikolai Tichonowitsch Berezowski , Canon and Fugue by Wallingford Riegger and the Divertimento for string orchestra by Béla Bartók . With the orchestra he also enlivened the Opéra-bouffe , with various performances of this genre. The orchestra, comprising up to 90 musicians, was considered one of the best orchestras on the Pacific coast at the time. In 1943 he became a partner at John de Keyser & Co, where he worked in the publishing sector. They opened a community music meeting place on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles , a place where musicians could meet, view scores and linger for a chat. He later directed Belkas Music Publishing . In 1949 he taught at the Fisher Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. In April and May 1957 he played a concert cycle with Trudi Martin in the Assistance League Playhouse in Los Angeles with Ludwig van Beethoven's ten violin sonatas. On June 1, 1980, Nathan Abas died after a myocardial infarction in Desert Hospital in Palm Springs.

Recordings (selection)

The Library of Congress owns several recordings made by Nathan Abas with the Northern California Symphony Orchestra:

Reception and commemoration

In The Bakersfield Californian of January 4, 1941, Abas is named one of the nation's most outstanding orchestral conductors [one of the country 's most outstanding orchestral conductors ]. With the article String Quartet Founder Raised Early Radio Baton, The Los Angeles Times commemorates the life achievement of Nathan Abas on June 9, 1980. She attests to him being one of the first to broadcast classical music in the West on a regular basis [ one of the first to broadcast classical music on the radio in the western United States]. He is remembered as the original conductor of the radio show The Standard Symphony Hour . Martin Bernheimer lists Nathan Abas in his musical review of the year in The Los Angeles Times on December 28, 1980 under the heading Ave atque vale .

literature

  • Nathan Abas . In: J. Daniel Jenkins: Schoenberg in words. Vol.5: Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyzes . Oxford University Press, 2016. p. 425 ISBN 978-0-19-538557-1 (English)
  • String Quartet Founder Raised Early Radio Baton. In: The Los Angeles Times, June 9, 1980, p. 20
  • WPA Concert Leader has had Notable Music Carreer . In: The Bakersfield Californian of August 5, 1941 (English)

Web links

  • Nathan Abas at dutchjewry.org
  • Nathan Abas at stokowski.org under Principal Musicians of the San Francisco Symphony . Concertmasters

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Abas, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist, music educator and conductor of Dutch descent
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , North Holland , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1980
Place of death Palm Springs , Riverside County , California , United States