Walter Meyer wrote:
>Seventeen times Furtwaengler was called back to the podium and not
>once, to everybody's amazement, did he raise his arm in the Nazi salute,
>obligatory at any function Hitler personally attended. To avoid it,
>Furtwaengler kept his baton in his right hand. "Heil Hitlering" with
>the little white stick stabbing the air would have looked ridiculous."
Perhaps he only used a baton during the Nazi years?
From the way this thread is going, perhaps the question should be "Which
major conductors do use a baton?"
Mike Cole