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Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...
Affectionately called "Ding Ding" by his cronies because he was once a trolley-car conductor, Charles Leo ("Gabby") Hartnett has been the most popular player on the Chicago Cubs since the day he first appeared at training camp as a grinning, chattering rookie in 1922. One of the greatest catchers of all time, with a lifetime batting average of .300, 200-lb. Gabby Hartnett, still grinning, last week succeeded Charlie Grimm as manager of the team to which he has devoted his whole major-league career...
...smoking Bürger of Salzburg, by a few hardy music-lovers from nearby Vienna and Munich, by an occasional tourist or student from the great world beyond the Alps. Their programs were simple and unimportant. In 1918. however, a group of Viennese musicians, headed by Composer Richard Strauss, Conductor Franz Schalk, Stage Director Max Reinhardt and Playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. decided to give Salzburg a bigger place on the musical map. Two years later the first big Salzburg Festival was given, with a gala outdoor performance of von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann (Everyman) as its principal drawing card...
Last spring, Austria's Nazification left the future of the Salzburg Festival in doubt. Maestro Toscanini, implacable foe of Naziism, immediately announced his resignation. Nazi racial policies ruled out Salzburg's two remaining luminaries. Conductor Bruno Walter and Stage Director Reinhardt. Though Nazi authorities soon announced that the festival would be continued as usual, it was obvious that Salzburg, 1938 model, was going to be very different from the Salzburgs that had preceded...
...festival's general program had changed little, but the personnel had changed much. In the place of the absent Toscanini reigned Germany's No. 1 conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Notably absent from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...