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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The orchestra to which Charles Munch has fallen heir was not the U.S.'s oldest. It was founded in 1881, 39 years after the New York Philharmonic. But it was the second oldest symphonic organization, and Conductor Munch was a descendant of a distinguished line of "permanent" conductors. Founder...
"Some Roughness Here." Each conductor, beginning with German Georg Henschel in 1881, had added something to the Boston's sheen. From 1884 to 1889 and from 1898 to 1906, the Vienna Opera's bearded Wilhelm Gericke, as Founder Higginson wrote, "gave to the orchestra its excellent habits and...
Muck's successor, Pierre Monteux (now the San Francisco Symphony's conductor) let it sing modern music-Stravinsky, Falla, Honegger, Milhaud. Then, in 1924, began the 25-year reign of Serge Koussevitzky, onetime bass-viol virtuoso and one of the great conductors of his time. Under his stern...
A Helping Hand. Unlike most U.S. conductors, Conductor Munch will not have to worry about where the checks are coming from. Almost alone among U.S. orchestras, the Boston Symphony has never had a financial crisis and no public appeal for funds has ever been made. It sometimes matches its more...
Bostonians would hear pretty much the same kind of programs: Munch's devotion to the moderns is second only to Koussevitzky's. But they would find it a little harder to know the man than his music. Munch's easy assurance on the podium is matched by...