Word: toscanini
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Last week the son of a Garibaldi veteran decided it was time to sound Garibaldi's hymn again. In a Manhattan radio program to be short-waved to Italy, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony in his own special arrangement of the song, added the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, the overture to William Tell, The Star-Spangled Banner, and then broke into tears. Toscanini called his program "Victory, Act I." He Was preparing two more acts...
...from Hall of Art sales. Most of them have not known anything like it in recent years. Last year, one 63-year-old painter, who had seldom sold a painting, sold $700 worth in one day. Stunned, he announced he was "now going to paint with all the fire Toscanini uses to conduct," rushed home, dropped dead...
...Arturo Toscanini helped Italian war prisoners improve their minds by sending to internment camps a good part of his private library, full of the favorite fuel of Axis bonfires...
When the music-loving Milanese got the news of Mussolini's downfall, they promptly demonstrated before La Scala Opera House, loudly cried "Toscanini must open the new opera season" (TIME, Aug. 9). For twelve years Maestro Toscanini, most famous of all Italian antiFascists, had refused to conduct in Italy. Under his leadership (off & on from 1898 to 1925), La Scala had become a sort of Vatican of Italian opera, had never sounded the same since he left. Last week history put a period to Milanese hopes: the Italian Government reported that La Scala Opera House had been destroyed...
...Beat of the Master. He took with him a knowledge of symphonic conducting based on a careful study of every flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...