Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year was to watch the excitement that would occur if the Festival had to be called off. Adolf Hitler, whose Bayreuth Festival was no great shakes, did everything he could to spoil Austria's show. He refused to let Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last moment, He saw to it that Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor of the Berlin...
...Austro-German border on technicalities. But "My Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman, a U. S. tenor under contract to the Berlin Staatsoper...
...liked was Raymond Hood. . . . Even if you look down the list through the ages Raymond Hood will stand out among the architects of all time as one who had the fortune and the genius to conduct radical experimentation with mass and color. Many have had this privilege on canvas or with clay, but it is rare for a man to be allowed to play around with steel and glass and stone in this fashion...
...conclusion, if Mr. Bitting believes he can conduct a hospital more successfully than have the Methodists, and his bonds are in default, he has a legal right to try his hand...
Testifying further, Major Fey gave the lie to the new Government's claim that Dr. Schuschnigg did not know the Nazis had killed Dollfuss when he promised them safe conduct to Germany, a promise which the Government failed to keep "on the ground that it was conditional on the Ballhaus being evacuated without the death of anyone within." Three times under cross-examination Major Fey stubbornly repeated, "The promise was made without conditions of any kind after those who made it knew that the Chancellor was dead. I repeatedly insisted that this promise should be kept...