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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini opens his tenth season conducting Berlioz' Harold in Italy, Wagner's A Faust Overture. Soloist: Violist William Primrose...
...Three. Two of the best three classical programs have no sponsors as the season begins. Arturo Toscanini returns to the NBC Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., E.S.T.) on Oct. 27, minus his General Motors sponsor that paid $1,250,000 for the hour last year. Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T., ABC) open this week, with no sponsor. But once again U.S. Rubber is underwriting the New York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., E.S.T., CBS) with Artur Rodzinski conducting...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Anne McNight, protégée of Arturo Toscanini, and Baritone Todd Duncan sing duets from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata...
...years later Steinberg came to New York as associate conductor of the NBC Symphony-and became famous among orchestra men as the one & only conductor from whom Toscanini invited criticism. With Toscanini's blessing Steinberg was appointed conductor of the San Francisco Opera in 1944, and of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1945. He built the feeble third-rate Philharmonic into a strong second-rate orchestra in just one year...
...Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...