Word: furtw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...festival's general program had changed little, but the personnel had changed much. In the place of the absent Toscanini reigned Germany's No. 1 conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Notably absent from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...
...summer of 1934 Germany's Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith's modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared its composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none...
Except for notoriously bad equipment, nothing had threatened the prospects of Covent Garden's Coronation operas (TIME, May 3). Director Sir Thomas Beecham had engaged such guest conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler, John Barbirolli, Francesco Salfi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner. Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony had been hired to conduct the world premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera...
...season was to last ten weeks instead of the usual six, promised 21 operas in all. Though French and Italian operas predominate, two complete cycles of The Ring are to be sung and Wilhelm Furtwängler will conduct them both. Besides Beecham, conductors include such notables as Artur Rodzinski, John Barbirolli, Fritz Reiner. Francesco Sain. Eugene Goossens will conduct the world premiere of his Don Juan of Manara, an opera he wrote to the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. Lawrence Tibbett will have the title role, after making his European debut in Tosca...
...Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany's Wilhelm Furtwängler was named Toscanini's successor (see p. 51 ), was first to restore his gift when Furtwängler withdrew. Short, stocky, with a great black bush of hair. Founder Hirschmann plays a tough game of tennis, has "three hobbies: music, long tramps in the woods, helping penniless musicians...