Word: kurtz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do to reclaim honor lost in one moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph to The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot saluted this defeat: "Mistah Kurtz?he dead," quoted Eliot, recognizing that no man is more hollow than the defeated egotist...
...Princeton yesterday, Lloyd Kurtz, manager of the Tiger band, said one bus load of musicians was leaving at 1:15 p.m., in time to reach Cambridge by early evening. "I can't promise you that we'll serenade," Kurtz said, "but we'll sure try to. At first we wanted to do it at 6 a.m., but that was too early. There is a good chance, however, that we'll try something at night...
...orchestra's founders (1913) and president of the board. Her rule has been benevolent. Says she: "I've dreamed of enriching the lives of everybody through music." When she became president in 1946, the orchestra's budget was $300,000. She imported Conductor Efrem Kurtz (at about $30,000 a year), added $100,000 to the budget and expanded performances. By last spring, the orchestra ranked among the first dozen...
Houston's symphonic society. Word got around that Kurtz was considered good, but not great, and he received his notice. Guest conductors came for frank appraisal, and went, until Hungary's Ferenc Fricsay (pronounced free-cheye) appeared and led a stormy performance of Bartok that had the audience stamping approval. He won the contract hands down, but now he in turn is in trouble with President Hogg. Fricsay, who since 1948 had built Berlin's RIAS Orchestra into a first-rate ensemble, talked of grandiose plans for the future of the Houston Symphony...
Conductor Efrem Kurtz, his Houston Symphony and two vocalists gave the suite the full ten-gallon-hat treatment. If it seemed a bit long (50 minutes) and repetitive, few in the audience minded much; it was Texas spirit all the way. Composer Guion, who attended the performance with the symphony society's President Ima Hogg,* stood up to receive an ovation with Kurtz...