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Buenos Aires' opera house, the Teatro Colon, is one of the two or three best in the world. Bigger and grander than Manhattan's aged and drab Metropolitan, it has a much longer season: from May through October. This year the Colon's director, Floro Meliton Ugarte, signed Arturo Toscanini (see above} for six concerts with the opera orchestra. Meantime...
Last fortnight the Radical Party held a convention in Santiago's Teatro Municipal. At stake was not only the fate of the six ousted members, but also the whole broad question of Party policy; whether the Party should swing left or right-appease the Communists in the Popular Front or cooperate with the Socialists and oust the Communists. As the 600 delegates strolled into the hall one evening there was a sound of swiftly running feet in the Calle Huérfanos. Somebody shouted "Los Nacis!" Shots rang out and three delegates fell...
Toscanini has agreed to conduct six concerts in Buenos Aires this summer, at the Teatro Colon, whose orchestra and operatic productions are South America's finest. Thus the Old Man is not too old (74) or tired to carry on, as some of his friends have suggested. But he is disturbed about the state of the world, and reluctant to enter on long-term commitments. Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony wished to hire him to help celebrate its forthcoming 100th birthday. But its subscription concerts have by now been allotted to nine conductors,* and special performances would have...
Today, besides XEW, Azcarraga, through Mexican Broadcasting Co., operates the 50,000 watt-station XEQ at Mexico City and the ornate Teatro Alamedo. With one of his brothers supervising a Chrysler assembly plant, another handling the distribution of RCA Victor sets in Mexico City, Azcarraga, known as Don Emilio to his intimates, makes plenty of time sales in the family circle...
Puccini: Tosco (Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Reale of Rome, Oliviero de Fabritiis conducting, with Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando Borgioli and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 28 sides). Puccini's great operatic melodrama recorded complete by as lusty a group of Italian songbirds as can be found today...