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...again. J. Dorsey Callaghan, the Detroit Free Press critic, even went so far as to ask "a conductor whose musical reputation is an international one" as to his availability for a job. In answer to his question, old (76) Serge Koussevitzky, who turned over his Boston Symphony to Charles Munch last year, replied: WILL
...extreme to achieve nationwide publicity, the patrons of the Boston Symphony filed quietly, as always, into the hall 15 minutes before the concert, greeted each other warmly, inquired how the summer had been at Prides Crossing of Manchester, and settled back to welcome the orchestra's conductor, Charles Munch...
...first concert was all Beethoven. The orchestra held up extremely well considering that, at the moment, it has summer and winter conductors, each at opposite musical extremes. After a summer at Tanglewood under Koussevitsky's leadership, it takes a while to get used to the more subtle style of Munch. Nevertheless, Beethoven's first symphony, a comparatively fragile, early work, was handled with all the delicacy that can be expected of a full symphony orchestra. Ordinarily, the work should be performed by about 40 musicians, and it is a tribute to Munch that he could make the piece sound...
...argument about his 74-year-old once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted snipped. Shaw won by having the offending whiskers plastered to his face. Next day, in his cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur fastened together by steel pins, Vegetarian Shaw sat up to munch on nuts and fruit, listened with gusto over a portable radio to BBC reports on his progress. When a nurse finished washing him, Shaw grumbled that he wanted a bath certificate: "Otherwise someone will come along tomorrow and want to do the same thing again. Too much washing is not good...
...inspiration in his bath one night and by morning had evolved a theory of human consciousness that put him, he felt, many years ahead of the psychologists. A year after that he spent a week staring into the open fire in his Paris apartment, occasionally knocking off to munch a crust, take a bath, or catnap on the floor for an hour or so. At the end of it-through "sheer imagination," since he was no mathematician-he had evolved a "mystical realization" of the theory of relativity, which put him in a class with Einstein...