Word: toscanini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prodigy at his profession, was nagged by doubt. Only 32, the top chorus master in the U.S., he was bossing his own 185-voice amateur Collegiate Chorale (sometimes broken down into smaller groups, e.g., the RCA Victor Chorale, the Columbia Choral) and preparing the choral parts for Toscanini's broadcasts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Falstaff, Requiem. But, as he diagnosed himself, "I don't handle the orchestra as well as the singers and I want to find out why." He promised himself a two-year breather to find the answer. Chasing...
...Arturo Toscanini...
Debussy: La Mer (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Toscanini has never been satisfied with his own, or anyone else's, navigations of this impressionistic evocation of the sea. In this, his first recording, his performance has subtlety, majesty, color and power-and less perfumery than most conductors give the piece. Recording: excellent...
...Victor even has hopes of releasing a Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; several renderings have been recorded, but, because of minor imperfections, the maestro has refused to approve any of them, for release...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting music of Prokofiev, Raff, Beethoven...