Word: scala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since Fritz Reiner's angry resignation (TIME, March 8), Pittsburgh's Symphony Society had been borrowing any top conductors it could lay hands on to lead the orchestra, if only for a few concerts. There was one man in particular they wanted, and last week, when La Scala Milan's famed Victor de Sabata appeared for the first of four guest spots, Pittsburgh decided that a few brassy fanfares were called for. All of Manhattan's first-string critics were invited, and they accepted...
...Rome a fortnight ago, two music critics fought a duel over their critical opinions, left the field of honor only after one was pinked in the arm. Last week, a soprano at Milan's famed La Scala bopped a critic for having written that she was "suffering from a slight vocal eclipse" in a performance of Aïda. Next day, the Milan Journalists Association condemned opera singers who assault music critics, praised the "chivalrous" music critic for not hitting back...
...Helena knows that early success does not always make a career. She plans to keep on studying, hopes some day to sing at La Scala or the Met. Said she last week: "I might go a long way if I don't hurry...
...last seats in Milan's La Scala opera house sold for $40 twenty minutes before curtain time last week. All of Milan society was there, in rustling silks, jewels and white ties; high above the first red-brocaded boxes sat elderly retired musicians in shiny, worn evening clothes. In all, 3,500 had jammed in to welcome their favorite son back to Milan...
Toscanini felt the orchestration faulty, and said so. They quarreled. Years later, Toscanini heard that Boito was dying in an obscure clinic in Milan; he arrived too late to see him alive. Toscanini spent two years finishing the orchestration of Nerone and gave its first performance at La Scala in 1924. But, say Toscanini's friends, he has always felt that he had failed his onetime comrade...