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This cable from Luxor, Egypt the directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society received last week with great relief. Last month they had engaged Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler to succeed Arturo Toscanini as the orchestra's general music director (TIME. March 9). Announcement of the Furtwängler appointment raised a storm of protest. Angry groups organized to boycott next season's concerts.' World-famed musicians served notice they would not solo with the Philharmonic if its leader was to be a man who had accepted and profited by the German Nazi regime...
...shouldn't I interview Stalin?" the rich and dapper little son of an Ohio railway conductor asked himself recently in Paris. Stalin is the son of a blacksmith. In Paris the conductor's son grabbed a telephone, called Moscow, asked the U. S. Embassy if the blacksmith's son would consent to see him, took a train for Moscow...
...Conductor Artur Bodanzky presided diligently over the Metropolitan production. Belgian René Maison proved himself an actor in the role of Leonora's husband. Basso Emanuel List was at his best as the easy-going jailer. But it was Norway's Kirsten Flagstad who did most to make the performance a popular success. She sang the most taxing passages with uncommon skill and ease, acted with a simplicity completely suited to the music. Earlier in the season there were critics who feared for Flagstad's voice, wondered if she were not trying to work it too hard...
With a chip on his shoulder Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler left the New York Philharmonic nine years ago determined never to return so long as Arturo Toscanini shared that orchestra's command. The German's first U. S. concerts were brilliant. After Toscanini arrived in 1926, he became heckled by adverse criticism, lost his confidence, his force. Last month Toscanini announced that he could no longer continue as the Philharmonic's general music director (TIME, Feb. 24). Last week the post was offered to Conductor Furtwängler. who promptly accepted...
...trim, uniformed figure in Kansas City's Union Station bustled a matronly commuter, bearing a pocketbook. "I just found this, conductor," explained she, thrusting the pocketbook into the impeccably gloved hands of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...