Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room "Chasa Mengelberg," there is a huge library and a piano, but no running water, electricity or radio. Until a TIME correspondent visited him last week, he did not know that two German musicians, accused but cleared of collaborating -Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and Pianist Walter Gieseking-had been forced to cancel U.S. performances* after stormy protests...
...opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after V-J day. Since war's end, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad had been allowed to return to U.S. concert halls (despite protests and picket lines), but German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (TIME, Jan 17) had been told by some of the most outstanding of concert soloists that he'd better not try. Gieseking's own case had raised the biggest postwar...
...others (alphabetically): Wilhelm Backhaus, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Artur Schnabel...
World-famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler was worried. Since war's end he had conducted orchestras in Britain and Switzerland, but the bid from Chicago was his first solid offer to conduct again...
Harvard's Professor Demos had posed his problem specifically about Pianist Walter Gieseking, who had played at Joseph Goebbels' bidding. But in varying degrees other musicians had been tarred with the same brush: Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had once taken a Nazi post, but who fought to keep the Jewish musicians in his Berlin Philharmonic;* and Flagstad, who had returned to occupied Norway to be with her husband (he died before he could be tried for collaboration). Flagstad had never sung for either quislings or Nazis...