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...which the conductor must blend-in time and volume-with the playing of 100 others. And while concentrating on the notes being played at any given moment, the conductor must also have one part of his mind listening to the entire piece. He must be on guard not to exhaust prematurely, in a too early climax, the excitement meant for a later one; to make each part shine for itself, and fit in a whole. It is not a metronome that is required, but taste, talent, culture and care-and some musical X besides. Toscanini has that X blazoned...
Members of the orchestra were not so affectionate. They knew him in rehearsal as a sweatered tyrant ("Don't spik! If you spik, I go!") who would exhaust them by demanding repetitions until his long-awaited "Vonnderful! Ah, vonnderful!" finally came. But they shared with him a fierce pride in their orchestra, which Bostonians-critics, musicians and public-regard as America's best. (Less partisan critics believe that the Boston and the Philadelphia are hard to choose between, with the New York Philharmonic a strong third...
...most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one. In some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara...
...Mere rumor, which runs at its wildest under such circumstances, is enough to dethrone reason; great terror, in a brave man or a cringer, can turn loose adrenal energies which must exhaust themselves in outrage and spoliation. It would be untrue to describe as a form of religious madness, even in religious India, a madness which operates also with equal fury among godless men. But where deep religiousness is present it is inevitably used, inevitably adds its own peculiar intensity...
...wisest moralists and the best dramatists might exhaust themselves exploring the problem of war guilt, without coming to many unarguable conclusions. Such an attempt would be eminently worth everybody's attention. Even Frieda's stock characters and their stock attitudes could amount to something; but only if an intelligent attempt were made to get beneath their surfaces...