Word: ferruccio
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...also, if he chooses, go to hear European artists who might never have crossed the Atlantic except for their record successes. London Records takes credit for popularizing Singers Kathleen Ferrier, Hilde Gueden, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Schoeffler; Pianists Clifford Curzon, Friedrich Gulda; Conductor Ernest Ansermet. Cloe Elmo, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo and Cesare Siepi were introduced to U.S. collectors by Cetra-Soria records before they were hired by the Metropolitan Opera...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Valdengo...
...cape leaped to the podium and began to orate: " 'Tis not for children, not for gods, this play; for understanding people 'tis designed . . ." Finally, Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos appeared and gave the downbeat, and the perplexed audience settled down to the first U.S. performance of Ferruccio Busoni's "theatrical capriccio," Harlequin...
...Remote Corners. For Violinist Szigeti, that has been the goal ever since he went to England as a young man and his work with Composer-Pianist Ferruccio Busoni caused "the scales to fall away from my eyes." He concentrates on trying to play a composer's music "from the inside out" instead of putting a "superficial" gloss on it. Though he has a reputation for struggling painfully to prepare every concert, he actually practices very little. Says Szigeti: "Visitors always seem to find me in my shirtsleeves when I have finished 25 minutes of practice, and think I have...
...Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 2. Lily Pons and Ferruccio Tagliavini. 3. Eduard Werner and the Detroit Scandinavian Orchestra. 4. Rudolf Bing and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. 5. Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra...