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Furtwängler Reinstated...
...late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler's music man, asking him to "help mend the broken threads between Germany and the rest of the world." And when Yehudi refused unless the ban was raised against Bruno Walter and other Jewish musicians, Furtwängler had replied, "It will be your fault if music goes...
...Siegfried Wagner, who died a year ago, a pre-Festival performance of his comic opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld (Blame It All on a Little Hat) was given in the old rococo Margrave's Opera. Came many a Wagnerite, including Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and buxom Frau Wagner who with her four children carries on the dynasty...
...Muck who was openly dissatisfied because Toscanini had many rehearsals last year while he was limited to a few. Beginning in 1933 (there is no Festival in 1932), artistic director will be Impresario Heinz Tietjen of the Berlin State Theatre and Opera. Musical director will be Wilhelm Furtwängler, another onetime Philharmonic hero. Conductor Furtwängler, not Toscanini, will probably conduct Tristan und Isolde this summer...
...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...