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Conductor Karl Muck, with a company from the Vienna Staatsoper rehearsed Mozart's Don Giovanni. Franz Schalk prepared to conduct The Marriage of Figaro...
With new mise en scènes for Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, an improved chorus, a company of famed conductors including Fritz Busch, Michael Balling, Dr. Karl Muck (in 1906-8, 1912-18, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Willibald Kahler, the annual Bayreuth Festival, it was announced last week, will begin on July...
...uncommon dignity he turned his back on the notable company assembled in that hall, raised his arms. Rank on rank behind him stood, sat, lounged, the many who had come to see whether the Boston Symphony had any chance of regaining the haughty place it held before Dr. Karl Muck went to Fort Oglethorpe under the Espionage act in 1917, whether it were true that this conductor was a "hypnotist," whether he could interpret Debussy, whether he wagged his head. They noted that he had a good back. They noted that every now and then, when he wanted to indicate...
...announced last night. Brown has played in the orchestra for three years as first cellist, under W. R. Piston Jr. '24, last year's conductor. At present Piston is continuing his musical studies abroad. His training has been under such men as George Chadwick, Wallace Goodrich, Karl Muck, Pierre Monteaux, and Emil Mollenbauser...
...Friday afternoon, years ago, the Boston Symphony Orchestra?Dr. Muck at the wheel?played Chabrier's rhapsody, Espana?brilliant, flaming. The audience roared approbation, kept on roaring. Dr. Muck looked worried. He turned back the page of the score, looked at the audience, look at the orchestra. Plainly they wanted the piece again. Plainly he wanted to give it to them. But precedent ? sacred precedent ? forbade repetition. Dr. Muck's courage failed him. After all, Boston was Boston. He went on to the next number...