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...podium, rapped smartly for attention. Toscanini was giving his last U. S. concert not for acclaim, not for money but for the benefit of the Orchestra which has played for him during the past eleven seasons. Once his baton was raised he became the humble servant of Beethoven and Wagner, began by making the first Leonore overture seem so buoyant and tuneful that it was hard to regard him as a conductor nearing...
...Beethoven D Major Concerto Violinist Jascha Heifetz played flawlessly. Yet all eyes were not on him but on the leader swaying gently from side to side, his left hand raised for every pianissimo, quivering over his heart when he wanted special feeling. From Wagner there was the Meister singer overture, given such verve that the audience shouted its enthusiasm. In sequence came the gentle Siegfried Idyl, the prelude and finale from Tristan und Isolde, a performance of The Ride of the Valkyries with shadings so subtle, with force so dynamic that it really seemed like a preternatural flight through...
...stage last week, no shower of flowers. Bouquets, Toscanini once said, "are for prima donnas and corpses, not for a conductor." When he had regained his composure he received a delegation from the Philharmonic directors who presented him with an elaborate silver beer service (he never drinks beer), a Beethoven letter and a glowing testimonial. From the Hall he went to his hotel where he gave a supper party for his orchestramen...
...April 13 issue refers to Simon and Schuster's "assertation that music publishing is for them ... a labor of love." Neither this nor the other Mr. S. has ever asserted that Essandess publish music as a labor of love. When we published the Schnabel edition of the Beethoven Sonatas in November I bet our sales-manager we'd break even on the venture within 14 months, and at lunch today volunteered to increase that bet. The Godowsky piano arrangements were published in "the same way: not as a six-weeks' bestseller, but as a work which through...
...series of Symphony Concerts in Sanders Theatre, closes tonight with the performance of Beethoven's First Symphony, Mr. Hill's "Sinfonietta for String Orchestra," and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony...