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Ossip Gabrilowitsch Conducts Wedding Reception
By Dave Krall

At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxO4wIEF7Fk
Attachment thumbnail is a video of Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra playing fox trots and other dance music for the wedding of Delphine Dodge to Jimmy Cromwell in 1920! (Gabrilowitsch recorded rolls for Duo-Art, Welte and Artrio Angelus and Horace Dodge had an Aeolian organ installed at Rose Terrace.) See the Maestro conducting [at far left] at time 1:37. Dave Krall [ Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Gabrilowitsch -- "In July [ 1905 he recorded ten pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano, [ one of the first pianists to do so. Between 1915 and 1927, he [ subsequently recorded at least fifteen more reproducing rolls for [ Duo-Art and least five reproducing rolls for Ampico." -- Robbie

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