I was recently reading about Arthur Rubinstein and came across his threat to boycott the CSO if Furtwangler was appointed. I've read a bit on Karajan and Bohm but never Furtwangler so I read his Wikipedia page. I was expecting to read he was a card carrying Nazi cheerleader but found quite the opposite. Based on the information available, I'm shocked he wasn't put to death. To betray disobey Hitler and Goebbels so many times seems like a recipe for disaster. Now I realize there's more to the sto [...]
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