Question
In 2024, Christian Thielemann took over as principal conductor of this city’s Staatskapelle orchestra from Daniel Barenboim. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this capital city whose philharmonic orchestra was briefly led by Leo Borchard before he was shot by American occupiers after its conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler fled from Gestapo arrest.
ANSWER: Berlin [accept West Berlin; accept Berlin Philharmonic or Berlin Philharmoniker or Staatskapelle Berlin]
[10h] Borchard was replaced by this conductor, a pupil of Furtwängler. The Berlin Philharmonic’s election of Herbert von Karajan so angered this Romanian conductor that he did not return to the orchestra for nearly 50 years.
ANSWER: Sergiu Celibidache (“CHELL-ee-bee-DAH-kay”)
[10m] Arturo Toscanini, who founded an early orchestra operated by one of these companies, criticized Wilhelm Furtwängler for his perceived Nazi association. Frankfurt’s hr-Sinfonieorchester (“H-R symphony orkester”) is named for its management by one of these companies.
ANSWER: radio network [or radio network or broadcasting network or public broadcaster; accept radio station; accept radio symphony; accept TV network; prompt on NBC or National Broadcasting Corporation or Hessischer Rundfunk by asking “what kind of business is that?”; prompt on media company] (Toscanini founded the NBC Symphony Orchestra.)
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