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...trouble was the singers. As La Scala's great Conductor Victor de Sabata put it: "In the old days we picked our singers; now we take what the impresarios have to offer." And with such Italian singers as Ezio Pinza, Salvatore Baccaloni, Italo Tajo, Licia Albanese and the Tagliavinis lured to greener U.S. pastures, Italian impresarios did not have much to offer...
With the Chicago Symphony, Conductor Victor de Sabata bowled over an ecstatic opening-night audience - and the critics - just as he had in Pittsburgh last year (TIME, Nov. 22). Said the Sun-Times's Felix Borowski: "By all odds . . . the most fiery of any of the conductors who have appeared here in recent years...
Last week, when De Sabata limped to the podium (he has a game leg), bowed to the audience, then returned to the orchestra, he reminded some in the audience of his master. De Sabata, who is 56, is 25 years younger and considerably taller than Toscanini, with a face like a Caesar. But from the rear, he has the same pink, bald scalp ringed with white...
...towering rage he shouted: "No! No! Warm it up! It is no good if it is not warm!" His windmilling was nothing like Toscanini's economy of gesture, but in its different way it did not seem wasteful: he got the musicians playing over their heads. Says De Sabata: "I scold them, tease them and torment them-but they play very nice-they give...
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...