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Conductors' behavior in the wings, says Totten, is often as idiosyncratic as their gestures on the podium: Boston's legendary Karl Muck would never see visitors after a performance; Serge Koussevitzky saw all comers. Leopold Stokowski makes his escape right after his last bow-"through the basement, if necessary...
...singing group appeared here--the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus, organized to illustrate Davison's lectures on the history of choral music. The chorus combined with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time in that year to present Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under the direction of Karl Muck...
...Jimmy Durante, faint undertones of the incorrigible schoolboy. The world, he says, "may not look so good, but it is the best God can do at the time, with conditions as they exist." He also likens the world to an old sow, which would lie down lazily in the muck and never move, if it were not for the gadflies-the rebels, artists and other eccentrics-that buzz and bite in her somnolent...
...through all the violence, contradiction and distortion of his denunciations, his personal credo rings clear: "Improve your standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" And when he says, for once in simple seriousness, that "good seed is seldom sown in vain," musicians, the world over, can only wish him better soil and an even bigger sweep...
...leitmotif that plays repeatedly throughout the book is Chambers anger and distress that all "the best people" heaped muck on him and sided with Hiss. The author wastes no opportunity to demonstrate the presence of the socially elite in the Communist camp. He frequently singles out Harvard which he appears to regard as an exclusive sanctuary for the rich and well born...