Word: maestro
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Facing Milan's quiet Piazza Buonarroti and its huge, brooding statue of Verdi, the three-story, red brick Casa now accommodates 50 men and 35 women in elegant austerity. There are still a few who remember the old maestro. Said Soprano Giannina Russ, 77, once a star at La Scala: "He was always critical. Just like Toscanini, he was never satisfied...
...came to investigating a murder. The thin body of 20-year-old Margaret Senteney, bruised and garroted, lay sprawled face upward in the sagebrush, when Undersheriff John Ross and Highway Patrolman Leonard Kirkes got to the scene one day in August 1942. The place was a desolate corner of Maestro Leopold Stokowski's rambling foothill estate, high above Margaret's home town of Carpinteria on the Southern California coast. The only clues were a couple of big footprints and a tire track -and despite Undersheriff Ross's warnings, Patrolman Kirkes managed to trample all over them...
First the maestro had been moved out of NBC's big, cerise plush Studio 8-H (now being converted into a TV theater) into Carnegie Hall. He had not objected too much: Carnegie is acoustically superior to Studio 8-H. But then NBC suggested a further move, to the unfamiliar Manhattan Center Studio. A final crowning blow to Toscanini, the story went, was the decision to shift his time to 10 o'clock (E.S.T.) Monday nights. When he learned that the NBC Symphony was to follow in an "evening of great music" such musically mongrelized but star-studded...
...announcement from NBC stated simply that "the return of Arturo Toscanini to the podium . . . has been postponed by the maestro." A year ago he had slipped in his bathtub and hurt his knee; this season, said the announcement, there had been a recurrence of the ailment. Fritz Reiner would conduct the first three concerts, beginning this week, and Toscanini's plans for the new season would be announced "at a later date...
Signed last May by San Francisco Opera Maestro Gaetano Merola after one hearing in Florence, Soprano Tebaldi flew to San Francisco without pausing in Manhattan, planned to return to Italy after the Los Angeles season. There was just a possibility the Met might still catch up with her. Met Manager Rudolf Bing, with a reservation for another performance of Aïda, is due in San Francisco late this week...