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More Than the Notes
the conducting of Toscanini, Furtwaengler, Stokowski and friends
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SIR ADRIAN BOULT
1889-1983 In a 1997 diary entry in his Untold Stories that fun and bittersweet playwright Alan Bennett writes of hearing the last movement of Elgar’s First Symphony on the wireless and being put in mind of “some huge submerged mass coming to the surface” and wondering what this meant. England? .…
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FRITZ REINER
1888-1963 What, forever asks the commentator, does a conductor really do? Well, he does the sort of thing Fritz Reiner is doing in the full page portrait decorating his French RCA recording of the Bach orchestral suites. His baton-holding hand raised crisply above his head, a handsome show of...
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HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
1888-1965 A face noble and Northern, austere but harboring perhaps a chink of humor, a face that looked as if a sculptor had just finished it, leaving a loose ringlet of hair to fall against the tall forehead met by high cheekbone. Yes, a face that suggested a military tunic belonged just below…
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GEORGE GEORGESCU
1887-1964 Some years ago I bought a history of the New York Philharmonic (then Philharmonic Symphony) and the only conductor listed therein I’d never heard of was a Rumanian with the euphonious but stuttery name of George Georgescu. GG’s musicmaking remained a mystery for several decades until I...
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PAUL PARAY
1886-1978 Just as Pierre Monteux was closing down his interesting tenure in San Francisco in 1952, his countryman Paul Paray was taking over the imperiled Detroit Symphony for what would be an extended and delightful run, chronicled for the ages with a large shelf of recordings exhilaratingly...
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GENNARO PAPI
1886-1941 At least one prominent historian of the Metropolitan Opera – and perhaps some copycats too — dismissed the diminutive and ubiquitous Gennaro Papi as a routinier. But to categorize thus this creative ball of fire, this master of operatic edginess – he had a long history in winter and...
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ROBERT HEGER
1886-1978 Another recording I grew up on was the 1933 abridged Der Rosenkavalier with Maria Olczewska, Klemperer’s onetime girlfriend Elisabeth Schumann and his maybe-almost-girlfriend Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Robert Heger, not exactly a household name in the annals of conducting and one that...
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WILHELM FURTWAENGLER
1886-1954 Time to convene a chorus of musicians-critics-foreign correspondents to salute with their authoritative passion the art of Wilhelm Furtwaengler, an art which in its long heyday mostly in Berlin and Vienna magnetized believers (many) and non-believers (almost as many). The pianist Paul...
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