Word: toscanini
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When Arturo Toscanini rehearses the New York Philharmonic-Symphony he calls constantly into the darkened auditorium where a square-faced, square-shouldered German sits meticulously following each note of the score: "Lange, how does it sound...
Died. Dr. Alberto Rinaldi, good friend and physician to Conductor Arturo Toscanini, whom he successfully treated for bursitis ("conductor's arm"); apparently by being clubbed to death; in small Piazze, Italy. Worshipped and called "miracle man" by villagers, Dr. Rinaldi treated such ailments as arthritis by a secret method involving injections from mysterious phials. He visited patients at night clad in ghostly white vestments. The secret of his treatment he took to his grave. Upon Dr. Rinaldi's unexplained death, Toscanini, who had annually obtained relief from him, hastened to Piazze for the funeral...
...early in August. Day after day, Tomaselli's and the Café Bazar were as international as the Place de 1'Opéra in Paris. Packjammed night after night were performances of Reinhardt's Jedermann and Faust, operas and concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Felix Weingartner. Last week with the festival in its final days, neither love nor money could obtain tickets for any Toscanini event or for the final Walter performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni...
...flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast to the U. S., in a series sponsored by American...
...Toscanini's first orchestra concert last fortnight arrived Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Raja I Rajgan of Kapurthala, and a pretty woman. They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation...