Word: furtw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a chip on his shoulder Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler left the New York Philharmonic nine years ago determined never to return so long as Arturo Toscanini shared that orchestra's command. The German's first U. S. concerts were brilliant. After Toscanini arrived in 1926, he became heckled by adverse criticism, lost his confidence, his force. Last month Toscanini announced that he could no longer continue as the Philharmonic's general music director (TIME, Feb. 24). Last week the post was offered to Conductor Furtwängler. who promptly accepted...
...Furtwängler Reinstated...
...mention was made of Paul Hindemith, Germany's most promising composer, for whose sake Furtwängler defied the Nazis four months ago (TIME, Dec. 24). Hindemith was boycotted then as a "cultural Bolshevist" who in his early operas had used librettos not in the spirit of the German "world outlook." He was flayed also for having married a Jewess, for once having played chamber music with Jewish musicians, for having made phonograph records with a Jewish 'cellist, a Jewish violinist...
...daughter of the late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler's music man, asking him to "help mend the broken threads between Germany and the rest of the world." And when Yehudi refused unless the ban was raised against Bruno Walter and other Jewish musicians, Furtwängler had replied, "It will be your fault...
...honor to Siegfried Wagner, who died a year ago, a pre-Festival performance of his comic opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld (Blame It All on a Little Hat) was given in the old rococo Margrave's Opera. Came many a Wagnerite, including Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and buxom Frau Wagner who with her four children carries on the dynasty...