14 Facts About Anshel Brusilow

Anshel Brusilow was an American violinist, conductor, and music educator at the collegiate level.

Anshel Brusilow began his violin study at the age of five with William Frederick Happich and subsequently studied with Jani Szanto.

Anshel Brusilow entered the Curtis Institute of Music when he was 11 and studied there with Efrem Zimbalist.

Anshel Brusilow attended the Philadelphia Musical Academy and, at sixteen, was the youngest conducting student ever accepted by Pierre Monteux.

From 1954 to 1955, Anshel Brusilow was concertmaster and assistant conductor of the New Orleans Symphony under Alexander Hilsberg.

In 1970, Anshel Brusilow was appointed executive director and conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Anshel Brusilow led the orchestra's first tours of Central and South America and started the pops series that the orchestra still performs to this day.

In 1973, after a successful tour of Central and South America, Anshel Brusilow was summarily fired after the Symphony's board of directors came under censure when it became public that composers were paying to have their works performed.

Anshel Brusilow was the music director of the Richardson Symphony Orchestra in Richardson, Texas, from 1992 until his retirement from that position in 2012.

Anshel Brusilow was Director of Orchestral Studies at North Texas State University from 1973 to 1982, and again at North Texas from 1989 to 2008.

Anshel Brusilow retired from his professorship at North Texas in 2008.

Moennig, according to Anshel Brusilow, "threw in a Tourte bow for free," which Anshel Brusilow still owned in the late 1980s.

Anshel Brusilow wrote in his 2015 book, Shoot The Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy, that he owned a John Dodd bow, and preferred it over the Tourte.

Anshel Brusilow married Marilyn Rae Dow on December 23,1951, in San Francisco.