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...year ago Wilhelm Furtwangler,* famed German conductor, came tor the U. S. to serve a four weeks' guest conductorship with the New York Philharmonic. He did his work well, he was a success, a sensational success, some said. On the basis of his success he was engaged for this season as a regular conductor for a ten-week term. Last week he arrived, began rehearsals with an orchestra still quivering with the thrill of Toscanini's administration, gave his first concert in Carnegie Hall...
...Leaders of the New York Philharmonic for the season 1925-26: Willem Mengelberg, first half; Wilhelm Furtwangler, second half; Arturo Toscanini, guest conductor; Henry Hadley, associate conductor...
They sang earnestly, well; showed excellent results of careful rehearsing in their local clubs. Walter Damrosch, famed symphonic conductor, directed them. Anna Fitziu, soprano, was the assisting soloist...
...withdrawal of the Harvard Glee Club from the annual Intercollegiate Singing Contest seems to have unduly excited a few of the graduates living in New York, two of whom have written irate letters to the Harvard CRIMSON and the Bulletin. To these letters G. W. Woodworth, acting conductor, has replied showing that the club has lived up to its agreements, and has acted entirely within its rights...
...garden, a stern voice breaking through the darkness to speak the awful law of redemption through renunciation; dawn, stillness, prayer; carefully explained but shallow, unoriginal music for which even the philanthropic genius of a Toscanini could not achieve distinction. But a great public on its knees to a great conductor forgave him for playing it, lavished him with applause, drew rapture from the Vivaldi, from the Beethoven...