Word: toscanini
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Beethoven: Symphony No. I and Brahms: Tragic Overture (B. B. C. Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor: 10 sides...
...TIME made no "attack" on Conductor Ormandy, whom it rates highly but less high than Conductors Toscanini, Koussevitzky, or Reader Stokowski's ex-husband...
...commission, but took his time about writing the opera. To the annoyance of NBC's program arrangers, it was not until last fortnight that Menotti put the finishing touches to his score. Last week the new radio opera had its world première, on the Saturday night "Toscanini Hour...
...Maestro Mitropoulos, bought out every last seat of their huge Northrop Auditorium (capacity 4,800). The men in the orchestra followed their leader with a devotion bordering on worship. Visitors discovered that some of the most brilliant and spectacular U. S. conducting since the peak days of Stokowski and Toscanini was being done in snow-crusted Minneapolis. This year, with Mitropoulos' fame spreading to bigger cities, Minneapolis tied him securely with a three-year contract...
...gets very proud of its bumps and bruises. When the top-flight conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw...