Word: toscanini
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...years ago the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's board of directors were casting about for a successor to Maestro Arturo Toscanini, just retired. Shortly after they signed up Germany's famed Wilhelm Furtwangler it was announced from Berlin that Conductor Furtwangler had accepted the high, Nazi-dominated post of Generalmusikdirektor at the Berlin State Opera. Thereupon irate Philharmonic-Symphony subscribers demanded, and got, Conductor Furtwangler's immediate resignation from the Philharmonic-Symphony post (TIME, March...
...Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Don Quixote, Gioachino Antonio Rossini's Ceneventola, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
White-haired little Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who fortnight ago was supposed to have had his passport revoked by Italy's Fascist Government, booked last-minute passage on the Normandie, sailed without his wife, who had accompanied him as far as Paris. Asked by a reporter what his latest tiff with the Fascists was all about...
...Toscanini stiffly replied: "You're a reporter. You ought to know...
...Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) returns with the NBC Symphony Orchestra for the first concert of their second season together...