Word: toscanini
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...easily the best performance of La Bohème the U.S. has heard since Toscanini last conducted it at the Met in 1910. After it was over, Toscanini waved hastily to the shouting audience and scurried off, leaving the applause for the singers and his late friend, Puccini...
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A great conductor recording first-rate music (which he has not always done recently). The result is a dazzling torrent of melody. Performance: excellent...
...Pasadena last spring, a bevy of music-lovers went to the railroad station to greet Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Bulky Photographer Howard Ballew was on hand to cover the arrival for Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express. Said Wilfred L. Davis of the Southern California Symphony Association, eyeing Ballew's camera: "Are you going to photograph Mr. Toscanini...
...flash bulbs on Toscanini-they hurt his eyes," Davis protested. "He'll go right back to New York and we won't have a symphony." More words passed. Music-Lover Davis grabbed Photographer Ballew's flash bulbs, tackled him, smashed his camera. Someone put in a police riot call, and in the excitement Toscanini came & went, unphotographed...
Ballew sued Davis for $25,000. Last week a Los Angeles judge held that it was not freedom of the press, but Toscanini's freedom from the press that was at stake. Suit dismissed...