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...Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed conductor of Berlin's Philharmonic Orchestra and Nazi-tainted Prussian State Councilor, was invited by Berlin's Soviet-sponsored mayor Arthur Werner to help direct the city's culture revival. Wrote the mayor: "German music. . . is trying . . .uncompromisingly [to realize] its genuine national value . . . Germany needs Furtwängler. . . ." The Russians benignly approved; U.S. authorities opposed the appointment...
Whether Berlin's great conductor Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler was or was not a Nazi hardly seemed worth arguing. Goring gave him the highest Government job held by a musician, that of Nazi Staatsrat (State Councilor) of Prussia. When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler...
Last week Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, back from a European tour, made a strong appeal for the Nazi Staatsrat, made even stronger by the fact that Menuhin is Jewish. He said: "If there is one musician who deserves to be reinstated, it is Furtwängler. ... It is well known that he held on to the Jewish members of his orchestra as long as he possibly could. . . . He would be welcomed in Paris. If Paris can take a German, I'm sure we should have no qualms about...
Across the Alps, Dutch Conductor Willem Mengelberg, permanently barred from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (TiME, Aug. 13) for conducting German orchestras, is living alone near St. Moritz rather than return to face the music. At Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...
...still a student. Miliza Korjus was married to a Swedish engineer who wanted her to settle down and raise a family. But her records created such a furor that she was catapulted into a career in spite of herself. They attracted Germany's famed Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who auditioned her for the Berlin Opera. She sang there, off & on, for a couple of years, recorded about 50 arias for Victor on the side...