Word: toscanini
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...fine but relatively unknown works to radio audiences. But probably the highlight of the year in the way of live classical music programs is the N.B.C. Symphony at 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoons. During its span it has featured such conductors as Leopold Stokowski, Frank Black and Arturo Toscanini, the last performing everything from a superb Brahms' cycle to "The Stars and Stripes Forever." This program has not, however, been backward in introducing new works, performing for example, Prokofieff's music for "Alexander Nevsky," and a Stravinsky symphony...
...time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were heard, but the Don Juan which followed can be spoken of only in glowing superlatives. Also heard during this hour and a half of musical ecstasy was an-almost-equal-to-Toscanini Brahms' Variations on a theme of Haydn, and three choral selections sung by the Cocilia Society and Apollo Clubs of Boston. These included Brahms' "Ein Schicksalslied" (A, Song of Destiny). Wolf's "Der Fuerreiter" (The Fire Riders) and the Borodin Polovetzian Dances from "Prince Igor." The flawlessness of their singing, their round...
Beethoven: Symphony No. I (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conduct ing; Columbia; 8 sides). Fifth on the list of currently available versions, Rodzinski's is rather rough, undistinguished, and not to be compared with the fine interpretations of Toscanini (Victor) and Weingartner (Columbia...
...form, his own profound knowledge of the score, his emotional temperature, from the tender to the explosive, and his exquisite musical taste. Beecham is widely regarded among musicians as an unparalleled interpreter of Mozart and Haydn in particular, and as a conductor, in general, of the order of Toscanini and Koussevitzky...
Hitler and the Widow. During the '30s Sir Thomas became worldwide. He guest-conducted Toscanini's New York Philharmonic, appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Opera. At the invitation of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, he took his London Philharmonic to Germany, also conducted the Berlin Opera. Feted by leading Nazis, he met Adolf Hitler, who assured him that his favorite opera was not Die Meistersinger (as always reported by Nazi propagandists) but Franz Lehar's luscious, low-brow Merry Widow. Sir Thomas invited Hitler to visit him in England. "He said," remarked Sir Thomas later...