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Toscanini's début was like a breath of warm invigorating spring blowing from his sunny Milan through the bleak Cosimaridden atmosphere of the Sacred Hill. His name and fame hung out the "Ausverkauft" (sold-out) sign in the Festspielhaus long before the first performance. His brilliant Tannhäusers and sublime Tristans outshone even the Parsifals of so great an oldtime Wagnerian as Karl Muck whose conducting has been one of the few bright spots of recent festivals. The German orchestra with which Toscanini worked, whose language he did not know, grumbled at first over the almost...
...debut. To his presence-perhaps his last engagement as an opera conductor -was ascribed an early sell-out of admissions for the whole season. He is conducting all five Tannhauser performances, the three of Tristan. Before him no South European had held the conductor's wand at the Festspielhaus. Thus to him had fallen the honor of bringing true Friedrich Nietzsche's words of long ago to Wagner: "We must 'Mediterraneanize' music." Tannhauser had not been given in Bayreuth in 25 years. It was an equally long time since Toscanini had conducted it. After each...
...Winter of Harvard. Last year he was director of dramatics at Dartmouth College, and during the summer of 1927 he was in Europe as one of the three American representatives at the conference of dramatic critics of Salzburg, Austria, observing the productions of Max Reinhardt in his famous "Festspielhaus...
...been allowed to "shoot" the man whose genius had attracted so many of the World's celebrities to the Saltzburg Festival (see p. 17). Max Reinhardt, who is making of Salzburg, his childhood home, an annual August rendezvous of everyone at all Art conscious, lurked in his Festspielhaus, directing a rehearsal of Turandot, is proverbially averse to being photographed. Came a little Jew, "the slickest Jew on earth," the uncrowned Barnum of the Drama. Mr. Morris Gest, in genial mood, volunteered to get Cartoonist Barton and his camera into the Festspielhaus where never a cinema camera had clicked before...
...abet the fame of Beethoven, paying for the publication of Arthur Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven in its first English version, contributing to the New York Public Library a valuable collection of works relating to the Master, giving a large sum toward the erection of a new Festspielhaus at Salzburg, Germany. * In the U. S. * The Directors, beside Mr. Mackay, are: Frederic A. Juilliard, Marshall Field, Otto H. Kahn, Charles Triller, Alvin W. Krech, Arthur Judson, Nicholas Murray Butler, Scipione Guidi, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Thomas L. Leeming, L. E. Manoly, Frank L. Polk, D. Edward Porter, Walter...