Word: toscanini
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...orchestra had 92 members, some of them seasoned players in National Broadcasting Co. orchestras, others newly hired from symphonies all over the world. Titled the NBC Symphony Orchestra, it was especially assembled to play under Arturo Toscanini when that exacting little maestro arrives in the U. S. in December, to fulfill the contract he signed with NBC last winter (TIME, Feb. 15). For the ten concerts he will conduct on Saturday nights (10 to 11:30 E. S. T. on both NBC networks), Toscanini will receive $40,000 plus his passage and U. S. income taxes...
...maintained the year around by a broadcasting company. NBC's orchestra will be drilled for the next month by Rodzinski, commuting between Manhattan and Cleveland, where this week he opens the 20th season of the Cleveland Orchestra. Rodzinski and Pierre Monteux will conduct three NBC concerts apiece before Toscanini's arrival. The 92 men of the orchestra were chosen from among 700 applicants, to the concern of at least one orchestra-the Detroit Symphony, which is losing five...
...group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include other composers. Eight years later the old Winter Riding School was converted into a Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. Salzburg's growing musical reputation blossomed powerfully in 1934 when Conductor Arturo Toscanini snubbed Nazi Bayreuth in favor of Salzburg. Thenceforth the Salzburg Festivals became the place for thousands of U. S. and European tourists to go, the playground for international socialites, the highest appointment singers & players could hope for. By last week the scurry and noise of thousands arriving, unpacking, celebrating, made the baroque little city look...
...Arturo Toscanini was working his men to a frazzle fo/ the traditional opening performance, Fidelio, on July 24. The spunky old man refused again to have Nazi stations pick up his broadcasts, relented only when Germany threatened to spoil Die Meistersinger by withdrawing two of its most distinguished stars-Baritone Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs),Tenor Henk Noort (Walther). Herbert Graf had plotted entirely new staging for Mozart's Magic Flute, and Toscanini planned to conduct it four times. Of the 27 performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart...
...concertmaster is to an orchestra what the stroke oar is to a crew. He sits closest to the conductor (coxswain), takes his orders direct, sets an example to the other players. NBC sent for Mischakoff because, when Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct Radio's proudest symphonic programs, the NBC Orchestra must have a stroke of the calibre to which the old maestro is accustomed...