Word: muck
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock. The following program will be rendered: Davison, Symphonic Poem. "Hero and Leander"; Mozart, Concerto for Violin in A major; Tschalkowsky, Symphony No. 6, "Pathetic." Mr. Carl Wendling will be the soloist. After the concert Professor Spalding will give a reception at his home in honor of Dr. Karl Muck...
President Eliot spoke last, on the need in America for the artistic expression of the best music. Dr. Muck is a fine example of the German master of a single subject, a kind of scholarship that we of America need in all our work...
...Harvard Deutscher Verein gave Dr. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a pleasant farewell dinner last night in the Union, which expressed as well the farewell of the Boston musical public and of the German speaking citizens of Boston and Cambridge. E. F. Hanfstaengl '09, president of the Deutscher Verein, presided at the dinner; and the speakers were Professor Muensterberg, Professor W. R. Spalding '87, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, and President Eliot...
Professor Muensterberg spoke for the German students and teachers of Boston in expressing their regard for Dr. Muck and their regrets at his departure. Philosophy and art both appeal to limited classes of people; music alone makes the universal appeal. New England has always been a Puritan district, into which the Germans are now introducing the aestheticism of their own scholarship. Professor Spalding spoke on the relations which have existed for several years between the University and the Orchestra. Harvard is endeavoring to produce a type of musician broadly educated as well as technically qualified, and to avoid giving...
Major Higginson, the strongest supporter of the Orchestra, spoke in the highest terms of Dr. Muck as a conductor, characterizing him as "a remarkable man-I would like to have him stay for ten years at the head of the Orchestra"; and, as Dr. Muck was unable to speak on account of a cold, also expressed his thanks for the reception by the Verein, and his gratitude to the American people for the kindly consideration with which they have heard his music...