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BEETHOVEN: THE NINE SYMPHONIES (RCA Victrola; 8 LPs). Another big package, but at the bargain price of $20. Not everyone agrees with Arturo Toscanini's distinctly brisk, no-nonsense approach to Beethoven. About the heroic first movement of the Third Symphony, the maestro once dryly commented: "Some say this is Napoleon, some Hitler, some Mussolini. For me it is simply allegro con brio." Still, Toscanini's brio was like no one else's, and the NBC Symphony strikes sparks as it builds to one peak of excitement after another, and then softly and precisely casts long incandescent...
...FESTIVAL. "Leinsdorf Recreates" presents the Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro rehearsing the third movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 with members of the senior orchestra at the New England Conservatory of Music...
...Thanks for the great cover story on our young maestro, Zubin Mehta [Jan. 19]. His musical leadership has brought a new breath of life into the culture of our community. May "Zubi Baby" stay among us a long, long time. We need...
Died. Victor de Sabata, 75, longtime (1929-53) artistic director of Milan's La Scala Opera; of heart disease; in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy. Conducting, he once growled, "is a beastly profession." But no one approached the podium with more single-mindedness than this long-armed maestro who treated orchestras to operatic rages and audiences to athletic conducting, ever disdaining-like his predecessor, Toscanini -the use of a score...
Orchestra Member: You're welcome, maestro; I'm only sorry I can't make the concert...