Word: toscanini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Toscanini was tired and a little apprehensive: he had never conducted on the West Coast before. But the cause was good, a benefit for the Los Angeles Philharmonic pension fund...
...didn't watch his baton, we watched his eyes," the concertmaster said. "They flashed for crescendo, smiled for melody, cried for the depths.") The 7,000 worshipers that jam-packed the huge Moorish Shrine Auditorium spent half the intermission praising the Allah of music and swearing that Toscanini was his only prophet...
...first rehearsal with the NBC orchestra (while permanent Maestro Toscanini quietly watched maneuvers from a studio corner), he told the musicians: "Meeting an orchestra for the first time is like a rider meeting a new mount-he isn't quite sure he'll go over the fence ahead of the horse or the horse ahead of him. I hope we'll take all the fences together." The audience at his first broadcast saw little chance that his musicianship would challenge that of wise old Arturo Toscanini, who hand-picked Dr. Sargent and who rarely encourages a serious...
...Arturo Toscanini is unquestionably the world's greatest opera conductor. But until last week he had not conducted opera anywhere for eight years, in the U.S. for nearly 30. Since 1915, when he quit after a row with General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the maestro has not considered the Metropolitan up to his exacting standard...
...radio performance of Beethoven's masterpiece, Fidelia, finally broke the spell. The first installment was broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro...