Word: maestro
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After the final curtain Composer Taylor, his quizzical face wreathed in a great smile, appeared before the footlights with Conductor Sylvan Levin. His upraised hand silenced the ovation. "Excuse me just a minute," he said, then leaned over, kissed the wiry little maestro on both cheeks, in true Basque fashion. The audience decided that it had enjoyed itself thoroughly; the critics, that the great American opera was still to be written...
Saturday night, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his second and what was to have been his last Treasury program-but it was announced that Maestro Toscanini would be back. Something to listen to was Toscanini's martial rendering of The Star-Spangled Banner: thunderous, romantic and exalted...
Songs, music, dances, and speeches will all contribute to the festive South American atmosphere. Harry Marchard and Don Rio, the Latin American maestro, will provide the music, while Yolagalli, draftee from the Rainbow Room, chants her vocals in Spanish...
...rhumba orchestra in question is that of Harry Marchard, with Don Rio as the maestro of the Latin-American section. Aiding in the occasion will be Yolagalli, a chanteuse of S. A. ditties imported from the Rainbow Room; Alfredo Seville, from Manhattan's La Conga; Nabor Carillo '42, a Mexican Baritone; and Jose and Argentina, Don Rio's dance team...
...expenditures such as 19? for wine for a lady soloist, but today it operates on a $1,000,000 budget. Since its merger in 1928 with the New York Symphony, it has a virtual monopoly of Manhattan's symphony concerts. But its audiences have fallen off since Maestro Arturo Toscanini left the orchestra in 1936. "The Old Man" well earned his $50,000 a year by his hard riding of the Philharmonic, which was then as fast and tautnerved as a fine race horse. Regular conductor now is a lightweight, Anglo-Italian John Barbirolli. For the birthday year...