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Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C; Debussy, Ibéria and La Mer; Berlioz, Queen Mab Scherzo; Respighi, Feste Romane; Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious...
...artist and the hordes showed up at the department store, in spite of the rain. Standing with his wife, Wanda, daughter of the late conductor Arturo Toscanini, Horowitz explained to the crowd the reasons for his rare gesture: "You see, I don't play in New York again until January 1978, the 50th annivarsary of my New York debut. So I thought the public could this way see that I am in good health and good shape...
...dizzy Harvard student. But one outlet for diversion which can be trusted each biannual drought is WHRB, 95.3 on your dial, which this year brings better-than-ever orgies right into the bedrooms of anxious and dissipated students on every edge of campus. Ranging from the traditional Arturo Toscanini Orgy to the sublime Bach Cantatas Orgy to the eclectic Northern New Jersey Orgy, featuring the mellifluous tones of (no, not the Jersey turnpike) some of the Garden State's finest, WHRB has something for everyone, regardless of preference...
...Mazurok and Milash-kina) was excellent, but here, as on sev eral other occasions, the real stars were Conductor Yuri Simonov, 34, and his powerhouse orchestra, who seize upon each moment of melodrama. "Whatever is written in the score should be heard," says Simonov, echoing his idol, the late Arturo Toscanini. That goes for voices too. Simonov has a knack, for allowing key vocal phrases to come through, while keeping the orchestra down but precisely audible. This Pique Dame pro duction is a relatively youthful eleven years old; it too is evocative...
...lesson of the drama that has been revived at Boston's Charles Playhouse is best conveyed by its full title, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Ui is Hitler. He and Goebbels, Goring and Roehm, under various aliases, are presented as Chicago gangsters who muscle into the vegetable trust (the Depression-ravaged German industrialists) and bulldoze the honest but senile leading citizen (Hindenburg) into legalizing their protection racket...