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...toward the entire Wagner family. . . ." The "lamentable events" Frau Wagner and all the world knew referred to the Nazi attacks which Chancellor Adolf Hitler has condoned, if not instigated, against Jewish musicians in Germany. Two months ago when Bruno Walter was forbidden to conduct in Leipzig and Berlin, when Conductor Otto Klemperer was pommeled by a band of Nazi youths and Soprano Frida Leider had her Bayreuth invitation recalled, Toscanini joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their phonograph records and radio...
...keep his Berlin State Opera post because Kaiser Wilhelm gave it to him. But it is doubtful if Chancellor Hitler will want to grant Blech any more favors. Consensus last week was that most of the Festival performances would be directed by Karl Elmendorff, Bayreuth's staff conductor, a man of mediocre talent who in past years has turned out stupid performances shoddily rehearsed...
...Davison '06, conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, was presented a set of 36 volumes of the English Madrigal School, in appreciation for his work in directing the club for more than 15 years, at a meeting held last night after the Yard Concert. The presentation was made by G. H. Acheson '33, the president of the club. E. R. Lee '34 is the newly elected president...
...Davison will take his sabbatical leave of absence next year but will resume his position with the Glee Club after he returns. Last night was the last big concert he will direct for more than a year. During his absence G. W. Woodworth '24, assistant conductor of the club, will assume Dr. Davison's duties...
...Friday nights throughout the winter the Orchestra congregates in the Hub Store fitting-room. Conductor Evans, a Chicago Symphony viola player, is the only paid professional in the lot. The concertmaster is Sidney James, a handsome, white-haired chemical engineer. One of the 'cellists is a brain-specialist- Dr. Adrien Henri Pierre Eugene Verbrugghen, son of Belgian Henri Verbrugghen who used to conduct the Minneapolis Symphony...