Word: arturo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family objected to an international career, and De Vito did not seem to mind staying at home. She did go to Paris in the early '30s, and played Bach for an enthusiastic Arturo Toscanini. "That's the way Bach should be played," said the Maestro. But De Vito had no great interest in becoming a touring soloist. What pleased her most was the unique honor of being named, in 1944, a lifetime professor at Rome's St. Cecilia Academy, one of the oldest musical institutions in the world...
...were on 78-r.p.m. disks. The new records also seem to deserve credit for broadening tastes. Where Chopin's Polonaise and the Boston Pops recording of Jalousie were bestsellers among "classical" records in 1947, last year's favorites were Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony (conducted by Arturo Toscanini) and a much more esoteric score, Berlioz' symphonic scenes, Harold in Italy. Last week Billboard's music sleuths found the public foraging still farther afield. Among the ten best-selling concert LPs: Cherubini's Symphony in D (Victor), Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 (Columbia...
BEST CONDUCTOR: 1) Arturo Toscanini, 2) Dimitri Mitropoulos, 3) Charles Munch...
...from the keyboard and seeing somebody swaying in time to the music. Totten's suggested explanation: "It might make him seasick." The late great Tenor John McCormack "thought flowers were unmanly," and delivered himself of some spluttering Irish oaths when he was once pelted with roses. Conductor Arturo Toscanini has a still stronger aversion: "He thinks flowers are for dead...
...climax of his winter conducting season, Arturo Toscanini picked Beethoven's soaring Missa Solemnis. Following his baton in Carnegie Hall last week were Basso Jerome Hines, Tenor Eugene Conley, and Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman as soloists, the members of the NBC Symphony and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Amidst this phalanx of well-known U.S. artists was one soloist few Americans had ever so much as heard of: a 28-year-old Toronto soprano named Lois Marshall. From now on, listeners are going to hear a lot more...