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...orchestra and Carnegie Hall to prove that he was not. Though the concert went well, for years he was unable to get a regular conducting job. In 1947 he was invited to lead the Budapest State Opera and Philharmonic. Some musicians thought he was in a class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became so enraged at a violinist that he grabbed the man's violin...
Ambassador Bruno Kreisky, head of the Austrian Delegation to the U.N., was obtained by the State Department through the U.S. Government Mission to the U.N. Dr. Kreisky accepted the invitation yesterday noon, but later in the afternoon said he would have to be in Washington today...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Bruno Walter conducting...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Bruno Walter conducting...
...Boston's unfashionable suburbs with alarming drive and talent. The tone for his spectacular career was set with the now legendary incident, 13 years ago, when, as a virtually unknown, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, he triumphantly substituted for ailing Bruno Walter ? without rehearsal. "Like a shoe string catch in center field," explained the New York Daily News. "Make it and you're a hero. Muff it and you're a dope . . . Bernstein made...