Word: rossini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What nettled the doyen of British critics most was a performance of Rossini's Semiramide Overture by the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir John Barbirolli. "No really musical person," groused Newman, "would leave his comfortable home . . . specifically to hear this . . . But bring, at great expense, a German orchestra all the way from Berlin to play this negligible bit of Italian music in the capital of Scotland, and an English conductor all the way from Manchester to conduct it, and apparently it becomes, by some magical transformation . . . a 'festival' work and we trudge all the way to Edinburgh...
...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist Robert Merrill singing Rossini's aria Largo al Factotum, and Whiffenpoof Song...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Ezio Pinza singing La Calunnia from Rossini's The Barber of Seville...
Barber of Seville (Sat. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Film of the Rossini opera, starring Ferruccio Tagliavini...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Rossini, Schubert and Richard Strauss. Conductor: Toscanini...