David Josefowitz
{{Short description|British violinist and conductor (1918–2015)}}
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David Josefowitz CBE (25 December 1918 – 10 January 2015) was a British violinist, conductor and music producer. He was the founder of the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11542375/David-Josefowitz-music-entrepreneur-obituary.html|title=David Josefowitz, music entrepreneur - obituary|date=16 April 2015|work=Telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=17 April 2015}}
Life
David Josefowitz, with his brother, Samuel Mulik Josefowitz (1921–2015), co-founded Concert Hall Society, Inc., a subscription-mail-order classical record label. David was an accomplished violinist and occasionally performed and composed under the pseudonym Jose Davido.
= Education =
After completing a year studying at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, David Josefowitz was admitted as a sophomore around 1938 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied chemistry and played association football. He also pledged to the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity at MIT in 1938. David Josefowitz was an expert in plastics and, in 1945, earned a PhD in Chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, which now is part of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. David had also studied music (violin) at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin.
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References
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[https://books.google.com/books?id=7ekAAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=%22concert+hall+society Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946–1977], by David Bonner, Scarecrow Press (2008), pps. 17 & 18; {{OCLC|859155478}}
[http://digitool.rpi.edu:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?custom_att_2=download&pid=12162 "The Led the Way,"] by Richard Wolff Schmelzer (1906–1984), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, August 1980
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