Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like that of Rudy Vallee and other famed radio entertainers, based on vocal sexuality. It rests, rather, upon the fact that his high, clear voice broadcasts much more smoothly, more truly than voices which, louder and more pretentious, would easily be recognized as superior to his on a concert stage. A voice endearing and mellifluous, silvery and vaguely sad, it is the one which all high tenors in glee clubs, bathrooms and social club quartets imagine to be theirs. When singing he stands still, raises his arms rarely in his single gesture, lifts his round face to the ceiling...
...Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because a Fascist official demanded that Arturo Toscanini play "Giovinezza" at a memorial concert in Bologna devoted to the works of his friend, the late Giuseppe Martucci (1856- 1909). It was even more natural that the world should become indignant because a group of Fascisti assaulted him for his refusal...
...haggard Toscanini was last week recovering from Fascist buffets. Soon he would go to Wahnfried ("Dream-Peace"), the villa Richard Wagner built at Bayreuth. There, as guest of Frau Winifred Wagner (widow of the late Siegfried and director of Bayreuth affairs), he was to begin rehearsals for the opening concert of the summer festival. Because his art demanded tranquillity, he wished no further discussion of the incident. But Italy was behind him; at last the world could view his case whole...
...long ago to refuse to play it, and il Fascismo once became so irritated as to threaten him with its famed, ugly castor oil cure. It was no new experience for him when Leandro Arpinati. Under Secretary of the Interior, and Boss of Bologna, requested that before the Bologna concert last month he perform the Fascist tune and the ''Marcia Reale" (royal march of the house of Savoy). Though Conductor Toscanini suspected no trap, he stoutly refused. Boss Arpinati suggested that the Bologna town band be permitted to play the pieces. "Impossible !" cried the maestro...
...entrance to the concert hall that night an angry crowd awaited him. "A morte! (Kill him!)" they shouted. "Is it true you refused to play the Fascist hymn?" He stood firm, his eyes flashing, his moustache bristling. "Yes, it is true!'1 Then their blows rained upon him . . . his mouth gushed blood...