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...years ago, the musical world was already swooning in the aisles over the fire-and-ice perfection of Arturo Toscanini's interpretations. Since then the little white-haired Maestro has become the darling of millions who couldn't tell a fugue from a flugelhorn. Today, as chief of NBC's shiny new symphony, 72-year-old Arturo Toscanini is far & away the biggest lion in the U. S. musical...
Henderson and Palmer do warn against the old-fashioned maestro who teaches affectation and artificial pretension but they actually recommend using a teacher who "honestly understands and sympathizes with your goal" (of singing to the masses). There are many enlightened vocal teachers in the country today whose business might be unjustly affected by the mistaken inference that this book, destined to become the authority on the subject, advises against their employment...
Originally scheduled for the broadcast had been a new symphony by 41-year-old U. S. Composer Roy Harris. But when it was brought to Maestro Toscanini's attention that expatriate Composer Strong was past 80, he substituted Strong's piece, cabled Strong to listen in on his Swiss radio...
...night last week Chicago's elegant Goodman Theatre was packed to its heavy oak doors. What drew this throng was no thunder-rousing maestro or pudding-fed diva, but a pair of pale, genteel young men who plunked softly on 18th-Century-model harpsichords. Before a silver backdrop, gently lit by amber lights, they joined in deft pluck-a-pluck duets by Mozart and Bach. Occasionally they were joined by two lush lady harpsichordists in 18th-Century lace and velveteen. To all this harpsichordery their audience listened reverently, applauded with loud smacks. For they were listening...
...Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs wild, critics rave at the new humorous note, and its "angel" orders the shocked maestro (Alan Hale) to produce Junior's U. S. ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which he later does some neat hoofing...