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Koussevitzky, Toscanini Sirs...
...astonished that TIME [Oct. 10] should have fallen for an old and, I believe, authentic Toscanini story and attributed it to Koussevitzky in connection with whom it simply doesn't make sense...
...late to abologize" anecdote (labeled in TIME'S story as probably apocryphal) has been told of more than one conductor, including Toscanini. But Toscanini is the most improbable choice. Reason: his English, at its coolest, is limited, expletive, disconnected. In a tantrum he invariably erupts molten Italian...
...Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in the world premieres of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Essay for Orchestra, the first works by a U. S. composer he has played since 1933. Also Paul Graener's The Flute of Sans Souci, Claude Debussy's Iberia, Antonin Dvořák's "New World" Symphony...
...Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...