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Last week Arturo Toscanini, having finished off his first series of broadcasts with Radio City's NBC Symphony, hopped off to California for a rest. His place was taken by another little white-haired maestro, this time one unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just defied bombs and mines on the S. S. Vulcama, for his chance to conduct the NBCers, was Belgium's No. i Conductor Désiré Defauw (pronounced Defoe). Driving the orchestra at top speed, with its cut-out open, through a broadcast of light French and Belgian pieces...
...Sample Toscanini fan mail...
...impressive than the Maestro's fan mail is the mental shag into which he has thrown Manhattan critics. Toscaniniac Marcia Davenport: "The sun shines on - and so long as it does there is nothing on earth to be heard like the electrical clarity of the least voice in Toscanini 's orchestra, or the overwhelming majesty of its full song. How or why he obtains, in the pursuit of his ideal of perfection, the almost terrible beauty of tone that he draws from every single player is the ultimate mystery and miracle that nobody can solve and nobody...
When NBC officials threatened recently to deprive sardonic Composer Deems Taylor of his free tickets to the broadcast, on the ground that he "didn't like Toscanini anyway," he blasphemously cracked: "I admit Toscanini was at the Last Supper, but I insist that he did not sit at the head of the table...
...Samuel Chotzinoff, Manhattan music critic and Toscanini fan, who got the Maestro to accept the job of conducting NBC's broadcasts (TIME...