Word: arturo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Silenzio!" The musicians watched tensely as their 87-year-old conductor passed through the silence, leaning heavily on the arm of his son. Out in the hall, many of the audience who had come to witness the season's last Toscanini concert also guessed that it might be Arturo Toscanini's last stand with the NBC-and perhaps with any orchestra...
That night the papers carried the news which for a week had been kept a strict secret even from his own musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music...
...Arturo Toscanini had a birthday last week, and as usual refused to take the slightest formal notice of the event. On his 87th birthday, when he was scheduled to rehearse his NBC orchestra, he stayed home and let a visitor take his place-and newspapers suggested that it was, among other things, the Maestro's way of avoiding congratulations from his musicians...
This week's broadcast by Munch was his introduction to NBC's 200-station audience. Next week's NBC broadcast will be Arturo Toscanini's farewell, at least for the 1953-54 season...
...Symphony (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...