Word: toscanini
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...autograph which looked like Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's, Walter Toscanini, long-nosed son of Conductor Arturo Toscanini, once paid 2,700 lire ($229.50). Shortly Son Walter, a rare-book dealer, learned that the signature was forged, gave Milan police a tip as to who the forger was. They found the rogue, one Tobia Nicotra, in his workshop, busy making autographs of Christopher Columbus, Lorenzo de' Medici, Warren Gamaliel Harding, many another...
...court last week Accuser Toscanini testified that Nicotra visited the U. S. in 1932, posed as the late Musician Richard Drigo, was widely feted. Two years in jail was Nicotra's sentence. Said Dealer Toscanini: "I wanted to restore the faith of foreign collectors in Italian dealers...
...went to his office casually one day, asked if any one would mind if she took that dirty airless room by the stairs. With Gatti's permission, she fixed the cubbyhole up, lined it with brocade and put a gold plate on the door labeled FARRAR. Only Conductor Arturo Toscanini, her great & good friend, refused to take orders from the spirited young prima donna. Gatti favored the "star" system for its box-office power. Farrar gave Toscanini diamond studs but the conductor maintained that stars exist only in Heaven...
...decided to go hatless, scold subscribers, ride a hobby horse at rehearsals. Stokowski had ''taxi trouble" in 1927 after which he took a leave of absence. He was "hit" again in Manhattan in 1930 when his performances with the Philharmonic suffered in comparison with those of Arturo Toscanini. Stokowski's position in Philadelphia was strengthened materially when his great admirer Curtis Bok lately became president of the Orchestra.* And it is an open secret that Manager Judson is through after this season whether his opera scheme works or not. Philadelphians suspect that smart Esther Everett Lape...
...supposed to describe a triptych painted by Mathias Grünewald in the 16th Century. Hindemith in writing it had worked himself into a mystical mood, produced occasional passages of eerie loveliness. Critics praised his craftsmanship, his few concessions to melody. Laymen were glad for intermission, impatient for January, Toscanini & Beethoven...