Karl Muck and His Compatriots: German Conductors in America during World War I (And How They Coped)

Bowles, Edmund A.

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“…Sadly, the manager's answer is not found in the society's records, but it is information that we know, as Kunwald's later internment at camp Oglethorpe has been documented. 29 Koenig's letter from November 24 to the manager of the CSO brought up local issues and touched on resistance to the society's plans: "I am enclosing herewith a clipping taken from one of our evening papers, in regard to the proposed appearance of your orchestra in Milwaukee. This same paper is making every possible effort to discourage this concert as well as the concert which Mme Gadski gave under our auspices on the 20 th .…”

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“Wir leben in einer schweren Zeit”: The 1917–1918 Concert Season of the Milwaukee Musical Society

Wendling

2022

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“Wir leben in einer schweren Zeit”: The 1917–1918 Concert Season of the Milwaukee Musical Society

Wendling

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Taking the German Muse out of Music:The Chronicleand US Musical Opinion in World War I

Bomberger¹

2020

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The case of conductor Karl Muck and the Boston Symphony Orchestra during World War I is notorious for its combination of nationalist patriotism and opposition to international influence on US concert organizations. Although it seemed on the surface to be a spontaneous uprising against a foreign musician who refused to play “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the public outcry against Muck was part of a larger campaign orchestrated by a shadowy propaganda magazine named The Chronicle, published in New York from March 1917 to November 1918. This journal was marketed to the United States’ wealthy elite and was available to subscribers by invitation only. By strategic publication of fake news stories and xenophobic opinion pieces, editor Richard Fletcher spread fear and suspicion through the most rarefied strata of US society. The journal was instrumental in blacklisting suspicious arts organizations and fomenting prejudice against enemy aliens. This article examines for the first time the role of this magazine in the banning of German-language operas at the Met, the internment of Muck, and the near-elimination of German repertoire from US orchestral programs.

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2009

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Karl Muck and His Compatriots: German Conductors in America during World War I (And How They Coped)

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“Wir leben in einer schweren Zeit”: The 1917–1918 Concert Season of the Milwaukee Musical Society

“Wir leben in einer schweren Zeit”: The 1917–1918 Concert Season of the Milwaukee Musical Society

Taking the German Muse out of Music:The Chronicleand US Musical Opinion in World War I

Making American Culture

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