Dr. Ernst Kunwald: The Internment of a Maestro
The Unfortunate Story of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's Dr. Ernst Kunwald
Dr. Ernst Kunwald’s resignation letter sat on Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra president Helen Taft’s desk for several days. “He did not wish his personality to be in any way detrimental to the interests of the orchestra,” the former First Lady told The Cincinnati Post in 1917. “I have been unwilling to make the resignation public, still less to accept it,…
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