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AURELIO DOZIO Milan, Italy...
...admits to being "only as old as I look" (early fortyish). The night after her concert last week, she went to dinner with Arturo Toscanini, who had listened in frowning silence to her voice when she was 20, then next day sent her a contract to sing at Milan's La Scala. At dinner, says Ebe, "Maestro was in a reminiscing mood, but he only covered the period 1898 to 1913-not my time...
...Toscanini's Shoes. Conductor de Sabata had been heard in the U.S. only once before, 21 years ago in Cincinnati. A friend of his in Milan, Arturo Toscanini, had urged him to go to Cincinnati, and when De Sabata got back to Milan, Toscanini had prepared another job for him. Victor de Sabata has been filling Toscanini's shoes at La Scala ever since. Some Italian critics, in fact, rate him above Toscanini as a conductor, an excess of praise which De Sabata doesn't seek. He still refers to Toscanini as "Maestro" and means it literally...
Composer in the Wings. The first music Victor de Sabata ever conducted was a composition of his own, at the Milan Conservatory-at the age of twelve. Six years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour in 1920-1, he played De Sabata's symphonic poem Juventus on every program. Now better known as conductor than composer, De Sabata insists with a smile that his is "a beastly profession." He swears he would rather have his two children, Elios, 17, and Eliana, 13, be "thieves...
Died. Umberto Giordano, 81, Italian composer who scored a one-shot success at 28 with his melodramatic opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier; of a heart ailment; in Milan, Italy. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fascist revolution, in 1932, Mussolini ordered him to compose a special tune...