Aging Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, 67, took to the pages of Paris' literary monthly, La Table Ronde, with some of the lessons of his musical life.
"If you want to fill a concert hall," wrote Furtwängler, who does most of his conducting in Germany nowadays, "it is more than ever the works of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven that you must play. A work by Debussy sends the box-office receipts down, and ... a poster which displays nothing but the names of living composers is a sure promise of an empty concert hall . . . There must be a reason."
Furtwängler's notion of the reason:...
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