Word: toscanini
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...Arturo Toscanini was feeling fighting-fit after his vacation in Italy. Pink and rested on his arrival three weeks ago, he had even been persuaded to pose for photographers (who had promised not to use flashbulbs). He also arrived ready to carry out a promise made in Italy. Answering the request of his old friend (and NBC's general music director) Samuel Chotzinoff, he had cabled: "Accept Ridgefield. Make nice program." Last week, for the second time in two years, the maestro made a "nice program" for his favorite little U.S. town, and had the time of his life...
...drilled the 53 musicians from his NBC Symphony through two renearsals just as demandingly as if they were to play for royalty. Said one: "There's just something about Toscanini; he makes us sound better...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini landed on the dock in Manhattan, hale and chipper after a four-month sojourn in Italy and what he announced would be his last boat trip. "I enjoyed the voyage," admitted the 82-year-old perfectionist, but it took too long: from now on "I prefer air travel...
...oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro, chord, and boogie-beat, Major, minor, jig, and waltz, Scherzo, downbeat, jazz, and smaltz, Jukebox, drumstick, and Puccini, Bassoons, batons and Toscanini...
...time the orchestra got to the last full-band chords, Composer Gillis, a man who knows how to use every bleep, boom and buzz in an orchestra with a light touch, had given them just about everything in music but Toscanini. Said grinning Conductor Dorati, mopping his perspiring brow: "Great...