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Show oo DISCORD IN BOSTON. Every lover of orchestra music will read with regret the news of growing discord in the noted Boston Symphony orchestra. The orchestra received its first blow when Dr. Carl Muck refused to let the musicians play the "Star Spangled Banner." He was ousted and interned and the orchestra trustees sot out to get a new director. Meanwhile several of the pro-German musicians quit and their places wero filled with others. Members of the organization began to join tho American Federation of Musicians. Trouble has been brewing over the stubborn refusal of tho trustees to recognize the musicians' union. This trouble seems to have come to a head for the dispatches carry the account of trouble which took place In Boston Friday. 'Frederick P. Cabot, the concert master, refused to stand when tho other musicians arose to acknowledge ac-knowledge tho applause of the audi-once. audi-once. He has been dismissed. Several Sever-al of the musicians sympathize with Cabot becauso of his efforts in behalf of the musicians, so it looks as though it were about the beginning of the end 1 for tho organization which once was the best orchestra in the United States. |