Word: toscanini
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...know the noise he made at home, too deaf to hear any of his music at the first Vienna performance in 1824. Nevertheless he insisted on standing in the pit and beating time along with the regular conductor. With a fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance by the New York Philharmonic, the first he has ever conducted. For the occasion he had 250 choristers from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid Onegin, Tenor Paul Althouse, Basso Ezio Pinza. Toscanini sang...
...Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very man." He imitated perfectly the sounds he wanted from the English horn, the double bass, the flute. The men's respect mounted until some were calling him the next Toscanini. But Iturbi wanted no adulation. "Please," he repeated frequently. "The music! I am not genius...
...Symphony in E flat major; Professor Edward Burlingame Hill's Concertino for the piano and orchestra; the Prelude to the oratorio "Gerontius" by Sir Edward Elgar in memory of the composer who died last week; and Debussy's fascinating La Mer instead of the new symphony by one Gilere. Toscanini will conclude the Beethoven cycle in New York on Sunday afternoon with the Missa Solemnis, one opus of Beethoven that we do not hear very offen. Also "Pagliacci" and Strauss "Salome" will be broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House at 1.55 P.M. Saturday afternoon...
...Bodansky conducting. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by the St. Cecilia Society and David McCloskey, will play the fol- lowing programme, to be broadcast Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF; Introduction to Solomon, by Handel; Evocation, by Loeffier; Prometheus, baritone solo, by Hugo Wolf; and Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic will play Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, all three of the Leonora overtures, and Brahms' First Symphony, on Sunday afternoon over WABC
...also the birthday of her good friend Mrs. Howard Linn, ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next day, faced with similar requests from Chicago socialites, Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," forbade it. Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that he would personally acknowledge all contributions for the Save-the-Philharmonic drive sent to him at Manhattan's Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home...