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...Milan through the bleak Cosimaridden atmosphere of the Sacred Hill. His name and fame hung out the "Ausverkauft" (sold-out) sign in the Festspielhaus long before the first performance. His brilliant Tannhäusers and sublime Tristans outshone even the Parsifals of so great an oldtime Wagnerian as Karl Muck whose conducting has been one of the few bright spots of recent festivals. The German orchestra with which Toscanini worked, whose language he did not know, grumbled at first over the almost superhuman demands he made upon them. Later they cheered him. Conductor Muck was mentioned for the vacant post...
...year's most important festival beginning July 22, ending Aug. 19. Tannhauser will be given July 22, Aug. 1, 5, 9, 20 and Tristan und Isolde July 23, Aug. 6, 10, all to be conducted by Arturo Toscanini;* Parsifal July 25, Aug. 2, 7, 13, 21, under Karl Muck; the first Ring cycle July 25, 27, 29, 31 under Karl Elmendorff; the second Ring cycle Aug. 14, 15, 17, 19 under Siegfried Wagner...
PARSIFAL, Act III, by the Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Karl Muck (Victor, $16)-The world's most famed Parsifal conductor gives his version of Wagner's Grail opera...
Through the lowering clouds of scurrilous criticism which have hung over Bawdy Boston for so long, there gleams at last a ray of hope that she may again cleanse her fair name and wipe the muck from her escutcheon. Under the guidance of her sturdy constabulary a reform is now in progress so startling and courageous in its nature that only the merest guess can be ventured as to the far reaching consequences which may eventually be involved...
...harmonics, he rebelled. Fiedler Sr., repentant, taught him the violin from that June into the following Fall. Then, out of 53 competitors he was accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp, was discharged for flat feet. He has since taught, played in concerts, organized the first U. S. sinfonietta (little symphony...