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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcements last week settled the atmosphere somewhat. Toscanini will conduct Taunhäuser this summer, as he did last. He will also do five performances of Parsifal, replacing the ageing Karl 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...
...surveyor he found: "The forbearance of women to pains" lets them endure the pangs of drug withdrawal; bad associations were to blame for almost every drug user in New York; nine out of ten drug addicts use heroin alone, or in combination with morphine, opium, cocaine, laudanum or paregoric (opium derivative, oldtime baby soother...
...said, for Schnurri and the other estate animals-Schnurri's summer lay of kittens; horses, police dogs, dachshund, and a little white lamb. Husband von Popper, gallant and taller than Jeritza, escorted her to San Francisco where she is to sing in a pre-season Tannhäuser and Salome. There he was to leave her and return to Vienna until the end of the New York Metropolitan season, which, he remarked, will be the last he will permit...
Last week it appeared that Widow Wagner found him. He was a bushy haired little Italian with a fierce mustache, conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony, the same Arturo Toscanini whose electric renditions of Tannhäuser and Tristan this summer brought acclaim as has been bestowed on no Bayreuth conductor since the War (TIME...
Wagner's Tannhäuser-Overture and Venusberg Music (Victor, 3 records, $6.50). Called the "Paris Version" because in 1861 Wagner added a bacchanale before taking Tannhäuser to the French capital for the pleasure of Princess Metternich, this is sensuous, stupendous Wagner...