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...league baseball, fans wait to see who is pitching before they lay their bets. With symphony orchestras, the man whom fans either cheer or boo is the conductor. Arturo Toscanini having finished 16 innings with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, a comparative rookie named Hans Wilhelm Steinberg stepped into the box last week, while veteran Bruno Walter sat by in the dugout, ready for action...
...Toscanini can be said to have any proteges, they are Erich Leinsdorf, newest of the Metropolitan Opera's conductors, and Hans Steinberg. An exile from Nazi Germany, Steinberg was conducting the Palestine Symphony when Toscanini visited there in 1936. So delighted was Toscanini with Steinberg's preliminary groundwork for his concerts that he chose him as his assistant in preparing for the NBC broadcasts...
...Steinberg, an expert conductor in his own right, conducts without a score, like Toscanini. Unlike Toscanini, he waggles his head both for cues and for umph. And when pinches come, he winds up like Dizzy Dean and lets them have it. Steinberg's box score: one hit, one error (playing Anton Bruckner's interminable Fourth Symphony...
...STEINBERG...
Hans Wilhelm Steinberg (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-Red). Palestine Symphony Orchestra conductor and Arturo Toscanini's new assistant makes his U.S. debut and closes the first NBC Symphony season...