Word: blech
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...unhesitatingly. Mengelberg, who for 35 years has been undisputed musical lord of Amsterdam, is unlikely to be willing to continue as second man in Manhattan. Some say that he will go to San Francisco next year to succeed Conductor Alfred Hertz. Other possible Hertz successors: Bruno Walter and Leo Blech, both Germans...
...Wagnerian Festival seem excellent, notably the baritone Schorr. By comparison they have made the orchestra all the more an abomination. The company picked up a group of musicians hurriedly, and put them through the ticklish walks, paces, and gallops of pieces like Die Meistersinger and Tristan. Conductor Blech is an excellent director, but the Archangel Gabriel, himself, would have his troubles with a group of players hastily recruited, and thrown into such a fray as the last half of the Meistersinger prelude...