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...field of music, the names of Enrico Carusa, the great tenor and Arturo Toscaniui, the conductor of the New York Philharinonic and the NBC Orchestra are known all over the world. Many other Americans with Italian roots have been prominent in art and music circles...
Back in the 1950s, when Clyde J. Key was a high school student in Fort Towson, Okla., most of the kids looked up to musicians like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Bill Haley. Not Clyde. His idol was Conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1957, when Toscanini died at the age of 89, Clyde had a dream in which he came upon the old man's weeping, grief-stricken ghost in a desert...
Died. Alfred Newman, 68, Academy Award-winning Hollywood composer and conductor; of emphysema; in Hollywood. "If I want to write great music," Newman once said, "I have no right being here." Perhaps true, but he was honored with eight Oscars and 45 nominations for orchestrating such films as Carousel, Camelot and The King and I; on his own he scored such hits as Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Robe and How the West...
...Your article re Penn Central [Feb. 2] brings to mind a standard quip one of the conductors on our train brings to light ever so often. Because of a particularly hectic day at the ticket window, a passenger had to get on the train without a ticket. He asked the conductor if he sold tickets on the train. The conductor said: "Hell, we don't sell tickets, we sell chances...
During the 12 years that Fonbes has been conductor, the choral society and glee club have gone on two summer tours-a West Coast and Canadian tour in 1964 and a world tour...