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2 unusual facts about Maurice Abravanel


Conrad B. Harrison

He also served on the Utah Symphony Orchestra Board when the board recommended that the Utah Symphony hire Maurice Abravanel as its conductor.

Maurice Abravanel

In 1925, Abravanel received a position as choral director in Zwickau, in Saxony.


Piotr Gajewski

Upon completing his formal education, Gajewski continued refining his conducting skills at the 1983 Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship and where his teachers included Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier and Maurice Abravanel.

Sydney Rayner

He appeared with that company through 1938, in Aïda (with Elisabeth Rethberg), Cavalleria rusticana (with Rosa Ponselle), Carmen again (opposite Ponselle), Les contes d'Hoffmann (conducted by Maurice Abravanel and directed by Herbert Graf), Manon (with Bidu Sayão in her Met debut, later with Grace Moore), Faust, and Pagliacci (opposite Robert Weede in his Met debut).


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