In fairness, English was a second language to Erich Leinsdorf who ironically was able to stay in the US thanks to the man who became President that day
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In November 1937, Leinsdorf travelled to the United States to take up a position as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. As it turned out, his departure from Austria came a few short months ahead of the Anschluss of March 1938, when the country was taken over by Nazi Germany. With the assistance of freshman Representative from Texas Lyndon B. Johnson, he was able to stay in the United States, and became a naturalized American citizen in 1942
On November 22, 1963, during a Boston Symphony concert, Leinsdorf had to announce the reports of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas, to a shocked audience. He and the orchestra followed the news with a performance of the Funeral March from Beethoven's third symphony.
The odd thing about the aftermath of the JFK assassination was America went into a deep funk for a couple of months and we did not snap out of it until Ed Sullivan did this
My parents and older brother DESPISED rock music but they were also captivated by the Beatles.