Spotlight on Herbert Zipper
In Dachau, I saw the list of people incarcerated in that infamous concentration camp. There were poets, writers, artists, politicians, and also musicians. Dachau happens to be one of those places where Adolf Hitler began his Nazification program of Germany. Artist and intellectuals were among the very first to be identified and arrested -- True enough, after they burned books, they started burning people. Going to the list of musicians one name really caught my attention, the name Herbert Zipper. I recall, in the rehearsal hall of the old Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO I) at the Manila Metropolitan Theater, two pictures hang on the wall, that of MSO founder, Alexander Lippay and Herbert Zipper the orchestra's famous Viennese conductor. The Tribune photo of Zipper - May 1939 A Viennese Jew Herbert Zipper was born April 24, 1904, to a prosperous Jewish family in the outskirt of Vienna. He studied composition and conducting under renowned names like Maurice Ravel and Richard S