Word: furtw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra was still without a general musical director to succeed Arturo Toscanini, who retires after this season. The Orchestra's first choice, Wilhelm Furtwängler, declined after liberals and Jews who suspect him of Nazi sympathies had raised a row (TIME, March 9 & 23). The second choice, whose name was revealed last week, would have been eminently satisfactory to anti-Nazis. Fritz Busch, onetime director of the Dresden Opera, lost his job in 1933 because of his liberal leanings. A onetime guest conductor in Manhattan...
...FURTWÄNGLER
This cable from Luxor, Egypt the directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society received last week with great relief. Last month they had engaged Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler to succeed Arturo Toscanini as the orchestra's general music director (TIME. March 9). Announcement of the Furtwängler appointment raised a storm of protest. Angry groups organized to boycott next season's concerts.' World-famed musicians served notice they would not solo with the Philharmonic if its leader was to be a man who had accepted and profited by the German Nazi regime...
...postponement" of Herr Furtwängler's season with the Philharmonic was hailed last week by U. S. Jewry as a signal success in its determined campaign to boycott German products. But Jew and Gentile Philharmonic subscribers alike agreed that the orchestra's directors had been ill-advised to invite Herr Furtwängler in the first place. Practical, old Critic William J. Henderson of the New York Sim called attention to the fact that at least one-half the Philharmonic's patrons are Jews. Said...
Though the Philharmonic directors had chosen a musician of outstanding ability, their announcement had instant and stormy repercussions. Some recalled the speech Herr Furtwängler made in Berlin four years ago when he referred to U. S. orchestras as "pet puppies which one keeps without inner necessity." Others pronounced him a slave to Nazidom, objected because he had been slow to protest when Jewish musicians were exiled from Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State...