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...organization hopes to draw more clients to Central Square, according to Toscanini's Ice Cream owner Gus E. Rancatore...
...CARNEGIE HALL MUSEUM. New York City's refurbished musical mecca celebrates its centennial with a new permanent exhibit of 200 items. Included are such memorabilia as Toscanini's baton, Benny Goodman's clarinet and a 1964 debut program autographed by the Beatles...
...Horowitz's 1951 Carnegie Hall performance of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. He summons a galaxy of dynamics and colors from the instrument until, in the finale, he builds a mountain of gloriously controlled sound. The disk also includes Tchaikovsky's popular Concerto No. 1, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. A piano lover's dream...
BEETHOVEN: 9 SYMPHONIES (BMG/RCA). This five-disc set (also available on cassette) spearheads the first installment of BMG's ambitious "Toscanini Collection." It is an invaluable introduction to Arturo Toscanini, who was revered for most of this century as an emblem of musical perfection but is now sometimes assailed for shunning the works of modern composers. Here conducting the fine NBC Symphony Orchestra (1939-52), the maestro remains unsurpassed for precision and clarity -- even at breakneck tempos. His structural grasp of entire works is astonishing: parts build with inevitable force to form coherent, if sometimes debatable, interpretations. The digital remastering...
...trip to Toscanini's is definitely worth...