Word: munches
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Died. Peter de Rochegune Munch, 77, prewar pacifist, Foreign Minister of Denmark from 1929 to 1940; in Copenhagen. He visualized a Scandinavian "oasis of peace," signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in May 1939-ten months before the Nazi invasion of Denmark...
Obviously the Philharmonic would use Walter's year shopping for a permanent conductor. Next year's guest conductors were the apparent favorites in the race: Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell, Paris' Charles Munch and Hollywood Bowl's Leopold Stokowski. All but Stokowski (who once was) are clients of music's Mr. Big, Arthur Judson, the Philharmonic's manager. Judson thus had a firmer hold on the throne than before Rodzinski abdicated (TIME...
Conductor Munch, a well-set-up 55, is an Alsatian who learned conducting from Wilhelm Furtwangler in Leipzig. In 1938 he became conductor of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris' oldest symphony orchestra, soon had a following of hundreds of French women who bought season tickets for concerts of "le beau Charles," without even caring what he was to play. The Conservatoire directors cared, though. They admitted that he got brilliant tone quality out of his musicians, but they did not share his enthusiasm for contemporary music. Three months ago the directors ordered him to conduct more familiar symphonies. Munch...
...guest appearances in his first visit to the U.S., Munch was allowed to pick his own programs. In Boston, where he made a big hit, Beacon Hill rustled with rumors that he would succeed 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky as the Boston's permanent conductor...
...weeks with the New York Philharmonic, Munch scheduled nine pieces by six Frenchmen. In his first Manhattan appearance last week, critics panned his Ravel and Debussy (they thought he overdid them), but cheered the first U.S. performance of French Dissonantist Arthur Honegger's Third (Liturgique) Symphony. It clanked through a violent first movement, settled into a lyric, prayer-like second movement and after an explosive climax in the third concluded with a wispy, ethereal melody. Said Conductor Munch: "It is horizontal music, rather stern and unsentimental, and as such, an expression of our times...