Word: toscanini
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...Arturo Toscanini of the NBC Symphony Orchestra...
...only minor variations on a general theme. We haven't seen that there is essentially as much difference between one film and another as there is between a symphony and a jam session. That example might stand us in good stead, incidentally; "Downbeat" doesn't try to judge Toscanini, nor does Olin Downes rip into Benny Goodman's work. Why ignore this demarcation when it comes to movies...
...Toscanini (Blue Sat. Jan. 24, 9 p.m.E.S.T.) and symphony in the first of three concerts for the Treasury...
...Arturo Toscanini, Soprano Lotte Lehmann, Basso Ezio Pinza, as "enemy aliens," found they had to get U.S. permission to travel from city to city. Questionnaires had to be filled out in quadruplicate for each jump. It meant that concertouring Lehmann signed 80, concertouring Pinza 88 (both of them have taken out their first papers). Toscanini won the right to go from New York to Philadelphia to Washington...
...been fiddling but building a Jewish orchestra-the Palestine Symphony of Tel Aviv, whose players were exiled from some of Europe's finest orchestras. Close as the war has been to it, the Palestine Symphony has been less affected than any in the old world. Hubermann got Arturo Toscanini to conduct the symphony in 1937, at considerable personal risk and expense...