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For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks

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When Charles Munch started work as the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1949, he gave a speech. There wasn’t much he could say, in truth. His English was poor, though he had just sacrificed an umlaut in his surname in deference to American spelling. An Alsatian sometimes …

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