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...Western Hemisphere. Then with quiet triumph he announced that his student Berkshire Music Center Orchestra would play the Seventh Symphony on August 14. But the truth of the matter was that he had been nosed out by his 75-year-old rival, Arturo Toscanini, the old fire-&-ice Maestro himself. Toscanini would conduct the Seventh on July 19, a month before Koussevitzky...
...Maestro Toscanini was very well connected. He was connected with National Broadcasting Co., and NBC, it seemed, had been exceedingly forehanded. Last January, before a note of the symphony had been heard in rehearsal in Kuibyshev, NBC started dickering, through its Moscow correspondent, for first Western Hemisphere performance rights. By April the rights to conduct the Seventh were tucked away in NBC's pocket...
...when Arturo Toscanini was the fabulous war lord of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, had no apprehensions. Sold out, the orchestra office had to return $25,000 in checks to applicants who wanted seats for the two-week postseason Beethoven festival at Carnegie Hall with wiry, white-haloed Maestro Toscanini conducting...
...festival crowns the Philharmonic's centennial year. It crowns, for Toscanini, a sporadic season of conducting. A year ago, when the maestro ended his 1940-41 season with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, he would not decide to continue for another year. NBC made other plans, secured Leopold Stokowski as its star conductor. Other orchestras pressed the conductor for guest appearances. He finally succumbed. Since November, he has conducted eight Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, five NBC Symphony broadcasts for the Treasury Department (for which he took no pay), has also done more recording for Victor than in any previous year...
...directors decided on a similar setup. They signed up four of the conductors who appeared this year (Walter, Rodzinski, Mitropoulos, Barbirolli) and a new one, Fritz Reiner of the Pittsburgh Symphony. They also invited Toscanini. Last week, the morning after the second Beethoven concert, came good news. The maestro's son, Walter Toscanini, walked into the Philharmonic office, told Associate Manager Bruno Zirato that his father had decided to accept. He will direct the Philharmonic's first two weeks next fall...