Word: broadcasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they gathered in Carnegie Hall's orchestra room before the Sunday evening broadcast, members of the NBC Symphony seemed to sense what was coming. When the door opened, one of the men hissed for quiet and another called "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...
...visiting conductor, who led the NBC Symphony in its broadcast this week, was the brilliant conductor of the Boston Symphony, Alsace-born Charles Munch (TIME, Dec. 19, 1949). And Munch's visit to Manhattan was something more than the Maestro's way of ducking congratulations...
Such an arrangement would be ideal for the Boston; the broadcast fees would help balance its budget. Without even an extra rehearsal, Munch and his musicians could broadcast any one of their four weekly concerts. The NBC Symphony would disappear, though under union contracts most of its members would be kept on for other studio assignments...
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...
Part of the expected overflow will be seated in Memorial Hall on folding chairs, and in New Lecture Hall. The speech will be piped into both places and broadcast simultaneously by WHRB and the Lowell Institute over WGBH...