Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China's Verdun. Day after day Japanese warships in the river blasted away at the Chinese batteries (pausing politely to let U. S. and British steamers and warships pass). But the Chinese, for once grimly determined, held on. The redoubts of the forts were blown into heaps of muck. Three thousand Japanese bluejackets went ashore to occupy Woosung Village. No sooner did they move out against the forts than the battered trenches came to life with such a withering rifle and machine gun fire that the Japanese were forced back. Back into action went the ships in the river, back...
...double-barreled feat was not new. Conductors sat at harpsichords before they ever thought of standing up in front of their orchestras, waving the first stout batons. In just such a fashion big, bewigged Handel made music for the Londoners of King George I. In the U. S. Karl Muck and Willem Mengelberg have conducted from keyboards...
...comparing War with Divorce, Dr. Robbins once more pinked his old adversary. Bishop Manning was a determined advocate of the World War, took part in the stirring "Battle of Karl Muck," which resulted in Conductor Muck of the Boston symphony being interned as a dangerous alien...
...Performance and recording have luster. Richard Strauss's Der Burger als Edelmann by Richard Strauss and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (Brunswick, $7.50) -The composer's own version of the charming, satirical music he wrote for Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll by Karl Muck and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Muck (Victor, 2 records, $2 ea.)-Wagner made this music for Cosima's birthday when their son Siegfried was one year old. Conductor Muck plays it superbly. Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Bruno Walter and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia, $2)-Manhattan...
Four of the five greatest European conductors have had U. S. fiascoes. Aged Karl Muck was repudiated by the Boston Symphony on a hazy charge of pro-Germanism. Wilhelm Furtwangler and Willem Mengelberg were popular for a time in Manhattan, then severely criticized and not invited to return. Bruno Walter was twice guest leader of the defunct New York Symphony, but in his brief regime he could not raise it from the lethargy into which it had sunk after years under Walter Damrosch. The fifth great maestro, who has not failed, is Arturo Toscanini. Under his guidance the New York...