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Producer Samuel Chotzinoff sent Soprano Price before the cameras without special makeup. At first sight, her striking features looked rather exotic, although the TV screen virtually wiped out the color contrast between her and other singers. But as Puccini's melodramatic opera proceeded, Soprano Price's quietly expressive acting began to tell and she became Floria Tosca, coquettish in the arms of her handsome lover (handsomely sung by Tenor David Poleri), murderous in the arms of the villainous police chief (Baritone Josh Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above...
...Adler who first brought the idea of brief operatic works in English to NBC's music chief, Samuel Chotzinoff. Scholarly "Chotzy" liked the idea. One day Chotzy buttonholed RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "General, I want you to hear some music." "The general was very annoyed," Adler recalls. "But anyway, I brought in some singers and they sang a scene from La Bohème, in English of course. In three minutes the general was in tears. He said, 'Could that be done on television?' " Chotzinoff andAdler assured him that it could, quickly blueprinted plans...
Best of all, from NBC's viewpoint is the growing number of network stations which choose to carry the opera series-26 for Martinu's Marriage last week. Adler and Chotzinoff are men with a mission these days. Says Chotzinoff: "Television is the only hope of opera in America...
...Toscanini offered no explanation, but Samuel Chotzinoff, NBC's musical director and the Maestro's longtime friend, made an authoritative guess: "Frankly, I think he was bored. Most of his old friends in Italy are dead now. And he missed TV; he loves to watch prizefights and all the shows and concerts. It's just a more peppy life here. Then, I think he sort of missed the amenities of living in America. Over there, things are apt to go wrong. Here, everything works smoothly- the phones and the radio and everything . . . But most...
...convinced that his performances are worth handing down to posterity.* When a recording session scheduled for this week was canceled, he demanded to know why. Told that the hall was available only after midnight, he said: "Oh. Perhaps the musicians will be too tired." Replied NBC Music Director Samuel Chotzinoff: "I wasn't thinking of them, Maestro, I was thinking of you." Said Toscanini: "Then we'll record." The truth seems to be that the old man, even though his son Walter and family are living with him, cannot bear the new loneliness of his big house overlooking...