Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival. Over and over she read the telegram which Toscanini had sent from Florence. "The lamentable events which have wounded my feelings both as man and as artist have not up to this moment changed, despite my hopes. It is my duty today to break the silence...
...Bayreuth had prayed that Toscanini would stay immune to Hitleritis. Toscanini, like other Bayreuth performers, takes no pay for conducting at the festivals. His appearances there assure the festival's financial as well as its artistic success. Toscanini's friends knew that refusing to go to Bayreuth seemed to him almost like betraying Wagner, that in his distress over the whole situation he was past feeling such thrusts as the one last week published in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung: "The great musician, with incorruptible ears ever mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard...
Aged Karl Muck is too frail now to conduct. Wilhelm Furtwangler is in high favor with Hitler but at odds with Frau Wagner because he felt she favored Toscanini. Fritz Busch is no Jew but the Nazis took his Dresden job away from him because they felt he had Red sympathies. Leo Blech who is a Jew has been permitted to keep his Berlin State Opera post because Kaiser Wilhelm gave it to him. But it is doubtful if Chancellor Hitler will want to grant Blech any more favors. Consensus last week was that most of the Festival performances would...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, dean of the Theological School, will conduct the morning services at 8.45 o'clock today in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, dean of the Theological School, will conduct the morning services at 11 o'clock on Sunday at the Memorial Church...