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Tribute & Applause. The Fascists did their best to make a great musician of Pietro Mascagni, and he cooperated. In 1926, he was appointed Arturo Toscanini's successor as director of Milan's La Scala. He obliged by composing a Hymn of Labor. The obedient Fascist press hailed his 1935 opera Nero, a musical tribute to Mussolini's Italy, but it flopped anyway...
Since last October, when she left a Manhattan hospital, she has been living quietly in a 17-room, rambling Tudor mansion in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, overlooking the Hudson River. She has seen almost no one, not even her nearest neighbor, Maestro Arturo Toscanini...
Just one of Camden's harps will be plucked by a man. Black-haired, excitable, French-born Carlos Salzedo, 60, is the maestro of Camden's harp school. Arturo Toscanini wanted him as first harpist in his Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and imported him to the U.S. in 1909. Salzedo is now a concert harpist, who turns pedagogue in the summer colony which he founded fifteen years ago to fill the demand for symphony orchestra harpists...
Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides)«. An authoritative job which should discourage lesser conductors from trying. Performance and recording: excellent...
...Arturo Toscanini, rejecting a "loving appeal" for his return to Milan and its La Scala Opera, broadcast an unminced reply: "I shall be happy to return among you as a citizen of a free Italy, but not as a subject of the degenerate king and the princes of the House of Savoy. ... All the vestiges of a past of ignominy and treachery must disappear...