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...rest of the time he works at composing. "Real composers get ideas from heaven but they never came to me that way," he said. When someone suggested he be come a conductor, he laughed: "All my life I've tried to be an honest musician and now you want me to be a racketeer...
Whether Berlin's great conductor Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler was or was not a Nazi hardly seemed worth arguing. Goring gave him the highest Government job held by a musician, that of Nazi Staatsrat (State Councilor) of Prussia. When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler...
...special train chugged out of Berlin's Wannsee Station, bound for Frankfurt. U.S. Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and his military government staff were aboard. After a while, Clay remarked that the scenery seemed changed since his last trip. The conductor glanced casually out a window, looked startled, gasped: "We just passed my house...
...Senate caucus room, clouds of tobacco smoke curled up through the hard glare of the Klieg lights, staining the air blue. The 100 newspapermen, jammed shoulder-to-shoulder at press tables that boxed the witnesses in on three sides, like a symphony orchestra around its conductor, scribbled amid a litter of handouts, maps, yellow copy paper, overflowing ashtrays. Under the tables their shifting feet smudged their piled-up coats and hats. Off to one side were 18 radio reporters sitting along the wall; behind them were the newsreel boys, their cameras whirring monotonously...
...Senator Robert Taft, mounted the podium and stood with bowed head, facing the Moscow State Philharmonic. He seemed to be counting off the rumbles of artillery. At the 20th, he raised his baton and began the world's premiere of his newest symphony. The bald-headed conductor was Russia's great est living musician, Sergei Prokofiev...