How ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ (And A Scheming New York Phil Board Member) Got The Boston Symphony’s Conductor Sent To An Internment Camp

Alex Ross recounts the story of Karl Muck, the elegant former director of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Berlin Court Opera, who came to the BSO in 1906 and was there for an unfortunate decision, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, not to play the American national anthem before a concert. – The New Yorker