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Modest (Moisei Isaacovich) Altschuler (February 15, 1873 – September 12, 1963) was a cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer. [1] He was born in Mogilev, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Belarus, into a Jewish family. [2] He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and emigrated to the United States in 1893. [1]
The Russian Symphony Orchestra Society (also known simply as the Russian Symphony Orchestra) was founded in 1903 () in New York City [2] [3] by Modest Altschuler, and functioned for fifteen years.
The orchestra made a series of recordings for Victor in 1928 issued as "Symphonies under the Stars" notable for being recorded in the open air. Guest conductors of these events included Alfred Hertz, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Bruno Walter, Pierre Monteux, Pietro Crimini, Modest Altschuler, Adolf Tandler, and Vladimir Shavitch (in addition to Goossens).
Modest Altschuler, who helped Scriabin revise the score in Switzerland in 1907, and who conducted the premiere with the Russian Symphony Orchestra of New York on 10 December 1908, [5] [6] [7] reported that Scriabin's implied program (which does not appear in the score) is based on three main ideas: his soul in the orgy of love, the realization ...
Her uncle Modest Altschuler was the conductor and founder of the Russian Symphony Orchestra while her uncle Gregory (Grisha) Aller and her cousin Eleanor Aller were both cellists and her cousin was pianist Victor Aller. Her cousin Boris Leven was an art director.
January 28 – The Russian Symphony Orchestra formed by conductor Modest Altschuler gives its first concert at Cooper Union in New York City. (The orchestra is an American one with a Russian name, not a Russian orchestra touring the United States.)
The charity was called Modest Needs but federal prosecutors who filed charges against its founder say his weren't. Rather, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan say, Modest Needs ...
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