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...when famed Maestro Arturo Toscanini snubbed Germany's Bayreuth Festival and decided to conduct in Salzburg instead, Salzburg's annual festival became Europe's biggest single tourist attraction. To it flocked not only music-lovers from all the world, but a great horde of gawping sightseers, visiting royalty, swank socialites...
Last spring, Austria's Nazification left the future of the Salzburg Festival in doubt. Maestro Toscanini, implacable foe of Naziism, immediately announced his resignation. Nazi racial policies ruled out Salzburg's two remaining luminaries. Conductor Bruno Walter and Stage Director Reinhardt. Though Nazi authorities soon announced that the festival would be continued as usual, it was obvious that Salzburg, 1938 model, was going to be very different from the Salzburgs that had preceded...
Hans Wilhelm Steinberg (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-Red). Palestine Symphony Orchestra conductor and Arturo Toscanini's new assistant makes his U.S. debut and closes the first NBC Symphony season...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini has done his best to call attention to his countrymen's symphonic music. So has Bernardino Molinari, the spry, white-haired conductor who is currently conducting a series of three broadcasts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. But last week, as he announced the program of his final broadcast, even patriotic Conductor Molinari had neglected his Italian contemporaries. Only modern pieces were Composer Respighi's Le Fontane di Roma, and Composer Pizzetti's suite of incidental music for D'Annunzio's drama, La Pisanella...
Music. Carlos Chavez, Mexican maestro who recently succeeded Arturo Toscanini as conductor of two National Broadcasting Co. concerts-to compose music...