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