Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan socialite, relict of the late Col. William Jay (Civil War veteran, lawyer), daughter of the late Henry Oelrichs, general director of North German Lloyd Steamship Co. in the U. S.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Famed for her Wartime anti-German activities, she campaigned against Conductor Karl Muck, founded the New York City Anti-German Music League and Mrs. William Jay's Committee for the Severance of All Social & Professional Relations With Enemy Sympathizers...
...comfortable background. Today no U. S. musician has greater honor in his own country and in Europe than. Violinist Spalding. Recently in Europe he gave 50 concerts with unusual success, in Berlin had highest praise for his playing of a Beethoven concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic under Conductor Karl Muck. In Manhattan last week he gave one of 50 recitals scheduled for the U. S., played with rare skill and sensitiveness a Porpora-Mozart-Beethoven program salted with pleasant short compositions of his own. Spalding's personality as well as his playing finds favor with his audiences...
Announcements last week settled the atmosphere somewhat. Toscanini will conduct Taunhäuser this summer, as he did last. He will also do five performances of Parsifal, replacing the ageing Karl Muck who was openly dissatisfied because Toscanini had many rehearsals last year while he was limited to a few. Beginning in 1933 (there is no Festival in 1932), artistic director will be Impresario Heinz Tietjen of the Berlin State Theatre and Opera. Musical director will be Wilhelm Furtwängler, another onetime Philharmonic hero. Conductor Furtwängler, not Toscanini, will probably conduct Tristan und Isolde this summer...
...Sergei Koussevitzky is due 100% credit for the Boston Symphony's present excellence. Seven years ago it was in sorry state. Frenchmen Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, successors to the maligned Karl Muck,? had proved incapable. The directors were appraising all the availables in Europe when they came upon a Russian exiled in Paris. They traced his history: at 12 he had been chef d'orchestre in the theatre of his native town (Tver in North Russia), composed whatever music was required for the plays and conducted the entr'actes. At 14 he went to Moscow to study, chose...
...hysterical, unproved charge of pro-Germanism, Muck lost his Boston post...