Word: ngler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aging Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, 67, took to the pages of Paris' literary monthly, La Table Ronde, with some of the lessons of his musical life...
...want to fill a concert hall," wrote Furtwängler, who does most of his conducting in Germany nowadays, "it is more than ever the works of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven that you must play. A work by Debussy sends the box-office receipts down, and ... a poster which displays nothing but the names of living composers is a sure promise of an empty concert hall . . . There must be a reason...
...Marco took Gianella off to a musician, whose skepticism quickly turned to astonishment. At 4½, she made her Rome debut at the St. Cecilia Academy. A few months later, she appeared in Spain, South America and Paris, and was touted by such famed conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler and Victor de Sabata (for whom she named her doll)-all before she could read a note of music. When she was seven, Gianella decided she wanted to conduct opera, buckled down for ten months of study. She made her debut with Traviata, in Ravenna, and now knows 18 operas...
...singer, left her husband on tour and went to a Buffalo hospital for a pneumonia cure. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. was nursing a "moderate concussion" and a wrenched right shoulder after taking a header from his horse on a San Simeon bridle path. German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler was forced to cancel the rest of his Salzburg Music Festival appearances after a bout of pneumonia. Hollywood's talking mule Francis was nursing bruised legs after her trailer jackknifed in traffic in Bridgeport, Conn...
From now on, for the remainder of the three-week season, Bayreuth will be pure Wagner, with a good many newcomers among the performers. Unlike Furtwängler, neither of the Wagner conductors, Hans Knappertsbusch and Herbert von Karajan, has ever held the festival podium before. Among the new singers: Met Soprano Astrid Varnay (Brünhilde) and U.S. Bass-Baritone George London (Amfortas in Parsifal), who has been a postwar star of the Vienna State Opera (TIME...