Word: toscanini
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...Symphony, most costly and prestigious orchestra of the U.S. air waves, last week got a successor to "The Old Man1' -Arturo Toscanini-who for four seasons had larruped great music out of it. The successor, as had been rumored (TIME, May 26), is petulant, platinum-blond Leopold Stokowski, also an old hand at symphonic larruping. But Stokowski is signed for only eight of the season's 28 NBC concerts. The rest will probably be conducted by guests chosen from the stick-wavers, good and indifferent, who have spelled The Old Man in the past. This season the Symphony...
Blasphemy was uttered last week: Maestro Arturo Toscanini was criticized out loud. Beaky, bespectacled Sigmund Spaeth, "Tune Detective," barbershop balladeer and general musical quidnunc, told a Los Angeles convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs...
...Much as I respect Toscanini as a musical genius, I am forced to regard him as a menace to American music. In preference to making some honest effort to discover first-rate American music, he plays the puerilities of tenth-rate Italian composers. He has been glorified until the public thinks no other symphonic conductor is worth listening...
...opera house, the Teatro Colon, is one of the two or three best in the world. Bigger and grander than Manhattan's aged and drab Metropolitan, it has a much longer season: from May through October. This year the Colon's director, Floro Meliton Ugarte, signed Arturo Toscanini (see above} for six concerts with the opera orchestra. Meantime...
...obliged to drop its Blue network, as FCC has demanded, it may not be able to find a spot for its expensive hour-and-a-half symphonic program. In any case it may not be able to get a conductor of the caliber of Toscanini or Stokowski. Last week, in the face of these many painful ifs, NBC said merely that the Symphony would continue...