Word: toscanini
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...made his way as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible to the conductor's stand. For him the business of the afternoon was Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Franck D Minor. But for once he had to pause until the audience had shown its reverence for Arturo Toscanini...
...this winter Lotte Lehmann has given 22 concerts, made her radio debut as Toscanini's chosen soloist and sung three times at the Metropolitan Opera House. Her last Metropolitan performance coincided last week with the conclusion of the Wagner Cycle (TIME, Feb. 12). The opera was Die Meistersinger and Eva who has always seemed a dull heroine suddenly bloomed forth as a charming young person, very much in love. Critics who marvel at the warm eloquence of Lotte Lehmann's singing, the contralto richness that holds to the high est notes, again complained because they had to wait...
...York Lotte Lehmann lives simply at the Essex House facing Central Park. She keeps no maid, shops at Macy's. There last week she bought coffee and stockings to take home to her friends. Two New York friendships of which she is particularly proud are with Arturo Toscanini and Geraldine Farrar. Toscanini, who has small patience with most singers, goes to all her performances. She did not recognize Farrar when first she saw her in the front row at her last year's concert. The oldtime singer was listening so intently, so sympathetically that Lehmann found herself addressing...
...conductors choose to give the Missa Solemnis because of its great technical difficulties, its demands on the human voice for which Beethoven never learned to write considerately. Toscanini last week made such obstacles seem negligible. The parts were perfectly proportioned between the orchestra, the chorus and the soloists. Transitions were managed so skilfully that the most fragile pianissimos seemed the logical conclusion to the mightiest crescendos...
During the Philharmonic's SOS drive (TIME, Feb. 5) there have been many protests against Toscanini's salary, rumored to be between $75,000 and $90,000 per season. The Missa Solemnis rounded out 14 performances in the Toscanini Beethoven Cycle. Each one has sold out to the doors. Bruno Walter and Hans Lange, the other Philharmonic conductors, make a practice of using popular soloists but even so neither one of them this season has been able to sell out Carnegie Hall...