Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circles, most people are optimistic. A few members of Harvard's Music Department are looking for-ward to Munch's arrival with frank relief. And while this attitude may not be characteristic of most members of the Department, it is certain that almost all those who have heard Munch conduct predict a great deal of fresh, interesting music for Boston audiences next year...
Munch received an extensive musical education from his parents, but this was directed towards his becoming a violinist, not a conductor. It was not untill relatively late in life that he began to conduct. In 1919, Munch was appointed professor at the Conservatory and concertmaster of the Municipal Orchestra in his native city--Strasbourg. This orchestra is now conducted by his brother Fritz...
During the Second World War, Munch faced the same problems which confronted all musicians in occupied countries, and came up with what many people consider the most intelligent solution. To protect the members of his orchestra, he was obliged to continue conducting and thus keep a foreign conductor out. He defended his musicians from possible capture by the Germans on political grounds, and did not allow investigations of religious or racial backgrounds. At first he refused to conduct before Nazi audiences at all, but when obliged to go so, he accepted his fees and turned them over to the Resistance...
...from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis second classman as official Recorder of The Stroke. This gentleman stepped to the poop deck of the lobster boat that the HAA had thoughtfully hired, cleared his throat, and made the following announcement...
Bales incarcerates his subjects in a specially rigged conference room and tells them to conduct a meeting. But unknown to them, Bales and his minions are spying on them through a one-way mirror covering one wall...