Isador Goodman

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Isador Goodman AM (27 May 1909 – 2 December 1982) was a South African-Australian Jewish pianist, composer, and conductor.

He was a household name in Australia in the 1930s-1970s, taught at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music for 50 years, introduced several Australians to classical music, and was instrumental in the development of music in his adopted country.

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Career

Goodman, a 19-year-old boy, accepted an invitation to teach at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, Australia. Local musicians were furious over the director's decision to bring in a man from abroad for a highly coveted position. For 50 years, Goodman would teach at "the Con," both on and off. Although he was a Professor of Piano by day, he played all night at jazz clubs in the company of 'hardened drinkers and SP bookies.'

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Goodman became well-known in social circles; Governor Philip Game and Lady Game became his patrons and personal friends. Goodman was at Government House for dinner with the Games one night in May 1932. After the governor was repeatedly interrupted for advice, Goodman wondered if he should leave. "No, that's not important," the game said, "I am going to dismiss the Premier."

Goodman toured Australia and New Zealand for the Tait group as associate artist for visiting Scottish tenor Joseph Hislop in 1932. They didn't get to continue, as Hislop believed Goodman was upstaging him. On one occasion, they even went to blows. In a National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra concert on July 1, 1932, Goodman appeared soloist. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra's predecessor, The ensemble was live from the Conservatorium to mark the official launch of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Goodman produced the musical score for Harry Southwell's film The Burgomeister in 1935. The score included a alcoholic drink, a lullaby, a peasant song, and a waltz.

Goodman, who became Sydney and Melbourne's musical director, performed classical pieces from films. When he appeared in Melbourne in 1940, he accompanied English actor Nol Coward.

Goodman joined the Australian Army in 1942 and rose to the rank of lieutenant during World War II. He gave over 150,000 servicemen 200 performances. He was discharged from hospital after being physically ill in September 1944. To the Australian servicemen, he dedicated his New Guinea Fantasy for piano and orchestra.

Goodman returned to Great Britain after the war. His farewell appearance at the Sydney Town Hall was one of Prokofiev's first appearance in Australia of his 7th Sonata. Despite playing at a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at St. James' Palace in October 1948, Goodman found it impossible to re-enter British cultural circles, and he could not find stable jobs in England in the postwar period.

He has returned to Australia, this time for a lifetime. He produced a lush, impressionist score for Australian director Charles Chauvel's landmark 1955 film Jedda about Aboriginals. Elsa Chauvel, the director's wife, scrapped the most innovative passages and replaced them with old-fashioned commercial'mood' music. Goodman's music was described as being too European to be appropriate for a film about Aborigines today, according to a late twentieth-century review, although the European viewpoint was typical of the period.

Goodman appeared on television station TCN9 in Sydney's opening night in 1956. He spent two years as the channel's musical director. In 1967, he returned to teaching at the NSW Conservatorium.

Goodman appeared in two music series of his own in the beginnings of Australian television. From 1956 to 1957, the Isador Goodman Exhibition on Melbourne station HSV-7 ran. Music for You, his second series for Sydney station TCN-9, ran from 1958 to 1960.

Goodman, who was seriously injured in a car accident in 1969, was forced to stop working for four years. In 1973, he made a triumphant return to the concert stage with an all-Chopin recital in Sydney. In the first series of concerts at the new Sydney Opera House later this year, he appeared with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He appeared in concerts conducted by Arthur Fiedler in February 1974. He appeared in Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in 1975. 2 at the Concert for Darwin, staged to raise funds for the city's devastated by Cyclone Tracy's death.

Isador's concert at the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, July 13, 1980, was a huge success.

On the 31th of July 1982, Goodman appeared in a recital at the new Melbourne Concert Hall (now Hamer Hall). On the 26th of September 1982, his last recital was at the Sydney Town Hall.

Goodman died of cancer on December 2, 1982. Lindley Evans, a lifelong friend and co-teacher at the Sydney Conservatorium, died on the same day.

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