Word: toscanini
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...Mozart: Concerto No. 12 (K.414) for Piano and Orchestra (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Louis Kentner; Columbia; 6 sides). First U.S. release of a European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...
...Arturo Toscanini did, from hate of Mussolini, what Hollywood could not persuade him to do for love or money. He made his first movie. In a short for foreign distribution he belabored old enemies with the words he wrote last year for Verdi's Hymn of the Nations ("Italy betrayed...
...Herald Tribune and the N.Y. Times, 326 citizens of more or less good will invited the nation to follow the newest Communist party line. The occasion: the tenth anniversary of Georgi Dimitrov's epic Reichstag trial. The citizens: a spicy mixture of Earl Browder, Arturo Toscanini, Lillian Hellman. The party line: a united front of "progressives, liberals and democrats" behind Georgi Dimitrov. (Most newspaper readers asked themselves blankly: "Now who the hell...
Three things were clear beyond any doubt: 1) Georgi Dimitrov is a courageous and disciplined agent of World Communism; 2) Earl Browder, for one, is not so sure that the Comintern is dead; 3) Arturo Toscanini is the world's greatest living conductor...
...Arturo Toscanini...