Word: toscanini
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...Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). Toscanini reads a poetic sample of one of the few younger U.S. composers with something...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Less heady than Toscanini's for Victor, Walter's 8th is as mellow as well-aged Viennese slivovitz...
More interesting than anything else in the play was the appearance in a bit part (an opera-singing cook) of Margaret Matzenauer-one of opera's fallen giants. For Contralto Matzenauer, who had been a diva in the days when Caruso and Toscanini were fellow Metropolitan headliners, Vickie might be a comedown. But it was made to order: Vickie's author, Hollywood Scripter Sid Herzig, got most of his ideas about opera singers at the age of eight when Contralto Matzenauer, newly arrived from Europe, lived in the Herzig family's Manhattan home. Vickie...
...familiar tear-jerker about the barroom piano thumper (Charles Laughton) who has written the great symphony, is finally given a chance to play it by a Toscanini-like maestro (Victor Francen...
...great event had happened at last. In Manhattan last week Conductor Toscanini led the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the first U.S. performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's long-heralded Seventh Symphony, composed during the Nazi siege of Leningrad...