Word: toscanini
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...Thomas as conductor of the Chicago Symphony. But before the old man's death he had taken the orchestra out on the road, satisfied himself that Thomas was right. Conductor Stock, now 61, suffers from sciatica and arthritis. But when the other big league conductors-Koussevitzky of Boston, Toscanini of New York, Stokowski of Philadelphia-hurry off for vacations after the formal winter season, Stock stays on duty to take his band to Cornell in Iowa, to the Festival at Ann Arbor. Usually thereafter he sails for Germany to bathe at the spas, hunt up new scores. But this...
...next season. In its Save-Our- Symphony campaign (TIME, May 7 et ante) there had bobbed up many a contributor who wanted to know more about what U. S. composers were accomplishing. To that end Werner Janssen was signed up to serve with such established European conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer. Rochester was unwilling to commit itself on Dixie Fugue, a blaring, dissonant finale to a Louisiana Suite played heretofore only in Europe. But when the horns and kettle drums were still, Conductor Hanson held up the concert until Werner Janssen came down the aisle...
...audience cheered itself into a hoarse croak, critics wrote rhapsodic reams and the Wagner concert Arturo Toscanini gave for his season's farewell in Manhattan last week left everyone groping for non-existent superlatives. Many a conservative New Yorker pronounced it the greatest concert within memory, credited its success not only to the little Italian conductor but also to Soprano Gertrude Kappel who majestically outdid herself as Brünnhilde in the Immolation scene from Götterdümmerung...
...ardent admirer of his superb quality as a golfer and a sportsman. May your broad-minded foresight in sports and other departments always prevail. PAUL McKENNEY JR. Columbus, Ga. Thrilled Engineer Sirs: Allow me to congratulate TIME on its marvelous treatment of the life, personality, and activities of Arturo Toscanini in your article "Birthday of a Conductor" under Music, TIME, April 2, 1934. I am a member of the engineering staff of the Chicago key station of a coast-to-coast broad casting network. I have saved another article appearing under Music. It is entitled "Engineers to the Fore" (TIME...
...corner in Northern Pacific in 1901, pitting his skill and strength against J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill. Art Patron Kahn sank his profits into the Metropolitan Opera Company of which he was chairman for 23 years. He installed Giulio Gatti-Casazza as manager in 1908. He brought Toscanini from Italy in 1908 and Arthur Bodanzky from his own home town in Mannheim in 1915. He spent nearly $2,000,000 buying out Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company when it threatened to ruin the Metropolitan in 1910. He stood ready to build a new opera house...