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...nation's best; in Manhattan. As a Jew, Steinberg was forced to leave his post as music director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents...
...taste but his own. In the 1920s and 1930s, by which time he had turned the once provincial Philadelphia Orchestra into one of the world's great ensembles, he had a more progressive view of contemporary music than either of his two main rivals-Arturo Toscanini in New York and Serge Koussevitsky of the Boston Symphony. He gave the American premieres of both Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Berg's Wozzeck. He was constantly concerned with helping young musicians. That was why, at age 80, he helped to found the American Symphony Orchestra...
Stokowski had little more success in his co-conductorships. His tenure with the NBC Symphony ended after two years because the joint director, Arturo Toscanini, felt that Stokowski's musical ideas were too divergent from his own to make a joint directorship possible. Toscanini, the purist, had only a mite of sympathy for Stokowski's revolutionary ideas about adjusting acoustics and reseating orchestras. The problems were almost exactly duplicated and Stokowski ousted exactly seven years later, when he was hired to co-direct the New York Philharmonic with Dmitri Mitropoulos. The flamboyant Stokowski, whose glamorous life was already shrouded...
...groups in the wake of the country's questionable February elections claimed by the military-backed government party. The wealthy businessman was kidnaped by members of the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front, which demanded the release of 37 political prisoners in ex change for his life. When President Arturo Armando Molina refused to negotiate, the leftist group announced that Borgonovo had been "executed in a revolutionary war to establish socialism...
WORKS BY SCHUBERT, MENDELSSOHN, BERLIOZ, TCHAIKOVSKY, DEBUSSY, RESPIGHI AND STRAUSS (Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; RCA, 5 LPs). The first complete release of a series of recordings made in 1941-42 finds the conductor producing spacious, clear-textured virtuoso performances...