Word: toscanini
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...rehearsals the orchestramen worked as they had not worked since the little Maestro left them last spring. They played Salome's Dance brilliantly enough to suit most conscientious conductors. But Arturo Toscanini interrupted time & again. He pleaded with them to remember that Salome was "a very passionate woman," attempted to illustrate by undulating his negligible hips...
Musician of the Year was Arturo Toscanini. In three of the world's great musical capitals- Manhattan, Pans and Salzburg-Conductor Toscanini was the sensation of the season, establishing beyond all dispute his title as music's greatest box-office attraction...
Enrico Caruso was the tenor, Arturo Toscanini the conductor on that November night in 1908 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza mounted his first performance as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera was A'ida, chosen by Gatti out of reverence for his friend and hero, Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Lately Gatti has been accused of being old-fashioned and reactionary. But last week as he began his farewell season at the Metropolitan, the sphinxy Gatti behaved as if he had never heard the carping. Again for the opening night he chose...
First-nighters thought Gatti might break his rule last week, take a curtain call with the singers and the new conductor. But Gatti took his first and last bow from the Metropolitan stage in 1908, standing proudly between his friends Toscanini and Caruso...
...fate of Carnegie Hall and the fitness of the Opera House for orchestra concerts. Carnegie depends on the Philharmonic rental to survive as a concert hall. And the city needs Carnegie for the Boston and Philadelphia orchestra concerts as well as for individual musicians who draw big crowds. Toscanini felt that the merger offered no artistic profit to either organization, objected specifically to having concerts at the old Metropolitan where the acoustics are suitable only for opera. New Yorkers accepted his word as gospel although he begged the Orchestra's board members not to let "this honest opinion carry...