Word: scala
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...that were like valentines to each other. Here are five of them: Brahms' Tragic Overture, Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 1, the Weber-Berlioz Invitation to the Dance and, for the first time on American LP, Mozart's Magic Flute Overture and Rossini's La Scala di Seta Overture. As usual, the maestro's familiar musical gusto is the controlling factor, augmented by the expressive freedom he accorded the BBC first-desk men in their solo work. There is also a certain pervasive ease and serenity not always foud in Toscanini's subsequent recordings...
...Italian way, as TIME's Rome Bureau Chief James Bell explains, is based on unreconstructed individualism. Everyone fancies himself the tenor singing a solo at La Scala; nobody is willing to settle for serving as the relatively faceless member of a big choir. "There isn't a political leader in the country," one party boss candidly admits, "who will subordinate his party's desires to the good of the state." For that matter, there is probably not a political leader who would subordinate his own personal ambitions to the good of his party, either. The result: everybody...
...houses in Germany, an apprenticeship that left her able to cope with anything-including an orchestra pit so low that she lost a few bars because she could not see the conductor's baton. Subsequent triumphs at the San Francisco and Chicago Lyric Operas, Covent Garden and La Scala were proof of her versatility. In 1960, back in the U.S., she married Henry Lewis, a young Negro who now is conductor of the New Jersey Symphony. Though her white friends warned her against it, black-white hostilities have been little problem. What caused a strain, Marilyn admits...
...Symphony broadcasts dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s. This year's batch will include Sibelius' Symphony No. 4, Mendelssohn's "Scotch" Symphony, dating from the same NBC period; and a Rossini-Verdi-Puccini LP emanating from the post-World War II reopening of La Scala on May 11, 1946 with the Maestro conducting...