James Tobin wrote: >My historical knowledge on this is sketchy also, but in the February >2005 issue of Gramophone, Rob Cowan says that in 1936 Furtwaengler was >invited to become Toscanini's successor at the New York Philharmonic (he >had conducted there in the 1920's) but "local protests made him withdraw." I am reminded of the protests against Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony, at the time of the outbreak of the 1st World War. I wonder what it might have been like back in 1941 if conductor Takashi Asahina been considered for a post with an American orchestra. Karl