Word: toscanini
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...days that Chicago rarely sees him. The rumor that he will resign is not confirmed. But Chicagoans had another resignation to mull over, and they paid their respects to Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff by standing and cheering him a full five minutes. As concertmaster with the new NBC Orchestra under Toscanini and Rodzinski, Mischakoff will have an enviable post. Chicago will have lost its best violinist...
...news two months ago to devotees of serious radio music was the engagement of Arturo Toscanini to return from retirement and broadcast next winter with the NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME. Feb. 15). Three weeks ago Manhattan music lovers heard one of the greatest concerts of the season when Artur Rodzinski conducted his special version of Elektra. And last week NBC created another happy radio flurry by also appointing Rodzinski to its concert podium and by making public plans for a whole year of fine music...
Beginning next season, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, consisting of at least 80 men handpicked by Rodzinski, will broadcast one concert a week for 52 weeks. Toscanini and Rodzinski will each conduct ten as sustaining programs. The remaining 32 concerts may or may not be commercially sponsored. Who will conduct them is equally undecided. It seemed certain, however, that Columbia, which usually matches the rival chain feature for feature, would have to bestir itself to equal the first year-round radio concert project under such distinguished auspices...
When the opera ended the audience sat stunned a moment, then rose and cheered for ten minutes, louder and longer than any Manhattan concert audience had done since Toscanini left last spring. Much of that applause was meant for Rosa Pauly...
...newcomer was Gina Cigna, who has been singing roles at La Scala since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. The late great Respighi chose her to take the lead in his La Fiamma. Mme Cigna made her Metropolitan debut last month as Aïda. Her singing was so warm and rich, her dramatic sense so keen, that the audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes...