Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna hadn't heard such music in years-and it was all because the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's two conductors hated each other...
Karajan conducted the first concert of the Vienna season, and from then on he and Furtwängler took turns. Whatever Karajan did, Furtwängler set out to do better. When Karajan played an 18th Century classical suite by Locatelli, Furtwängler followed with a Handel suite. When Karajan conducted Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Furtwängler played Tchaikovsky's Sixth...
Last week, as Vienna's concert season drew toward its close, it was obvious that no one would stop him for long. He is already scheduled to direct this summer's festival in his native Salzburg. Says crack Vienna Critic Heinrich Kralik: "He is still young and will grow. If he continues his development, he may achieve Toscanini." But, says cocksure Conductor Karajan, who once assisted Toscanini at the Salzburg festival: "Toscanini is Italian and I'm an Austrian. Nothing comes of emulating another conductor...
Married. Gwendoline de Rothschild, 21, brunette Barnard College student, younger daughter of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Vienna, great-granddaughter of Banking Dynast Solomon de Rothschild; and H. Roland Hoguet, 27, socialite meat salesman (Armour) ; in Manhattan...
Labor's candidate also gave cause for more than usual concern: witty, urbane Harold Nicolson, author (Curson: The Last Phase, The Congress of Vienna) and ex-diplomat, was a good friend of Winston Churchill, and a recent Labor convert. He campaigned on a well-bred, sporting level, emphasizing his air of mild reasonableness by saying: "I doubt whether Solomon Eagles* himself could arouse this placid community to a sense of urgency and passion...