Word: ngler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectual likeness to him. He has vigor, directness, a scorn of sham that amounts some- times to a scorn of subtlety, and a kind of majesty even-the majesty of the unconcerned. Perhaps that is why the cellists slapped their instruments, Mr. Mackay beamed, the house roared, Furtwängler marched 16 times between the conductor's dais and the wings and could not leave until he had made a speech which consisted of a bow, a gesture, and three inaudible words. He left forthwith for Germany...
...London, the Royal Philharmonic Society gave its first concert of the .season. Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed German who will fill a guest engagement with the New York Philharmonic this year (TIME, Dec. 8), was the conductor. Old is the Royal Philharmonic Society. When it opened its season 100 years ago, Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C Minor was played for the first time in England...