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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Toscanini: the Maestro Revisited" commemorates the 100th birthday anniversary of Arturo Toscanini with excerpts from symphony telecasts, home movies and comments on his approach to his art by Conductors George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, Erich Leinsdorf and Milton Katims. Harold Schonberg narrates...
...last fall's scheduled première for two months so that he could practice it some more, at one point holed up in the Steinway warehouse in Boston for six hours a day. Finally, last week Carter's concerto was given its world premiere, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony. Lateiner's homework paid off. He played with a flair and a command that are rare in such a complex work, and though the concerto provoked a few shudders among antimodernists in the audience, it was a treat worth the travail...
Magic Ingredient. Kilgour, French & Stanbury, whose clients include Novelist Patrick Dennis, David Merrick and CBS Chairman William Paley, thought nothing of fitting two vicuna overcoats for a 20th Century-Fox executive in the VIP lounge of the London Airport while he was between planes. Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor Erich Leinsdorf remembers that "whenever I played at Festival Hall, Stanbury would go there and study my motions so he could improve my full-dress suit...
...gang." She insists upon carrying her own bags, does not mind the bothersome business of changing behind trunks and fussing with her wardrobe while on tour (harpists find that pleated skirts stay neatly pressed if wound through the strings of their instruments). Says Boston's Leinsdorf: "Uniformly, the women's pride is so great that their attendance record is better than the men's. They have my utmost respect." But women rarely get the utmost money, and most orchestra managers freely admit that given equal talent, they will hire the breadwinning man over the woman every time...
...that one eternally winning instrument: charm. When things get tight, as Orin O'Brien explains, "you just smile and give in." No man can cope with that, and what really counts in the end is that the girls can play exceedingly well. "Let the best man in," declares Leinsdorf, echoing the sentiments of most of the profession. "And if the best man is a woman...