Word: toscanini
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Reasons for the growing interest in Wagner are the contingent of excellent German artists now at the Met; the Company's acquisition last year of Soprano Frida Leider, Contralto Maria Olszewska and Basso Ludwig Hofmann; the improvement of Tenor Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner...
...liberty exists in fascist Italy," continued Salvemini. "Toscanini is beaten in Milan for refusing to play the fascist anthem. Ferrero, the historian, lives in exile in Geneva. And Croce is grossly insulted for uttering sentiments displeasing to the fascists while lecturing at Oxford. Today he can not write on political topics...
...expensive musical cargo that the S. S. Rex landed in the Port of New York one morning last week. Newsmen at Quarantine pounced first on Arturo Toscanini, who gravely said "How are you?" and turned his back...
Other musical passengers were less reticent. Conductor Bernardino Molinari was on his way to San Francisco to play several new compositions. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was with Toscanini's pretty daughter Wanda whom he married a month ago in Milan (TIME, Jan. 1). Janet Olcott,17-year-old daughter of the late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler...
...Equally characteristic was Toscanini's greeting to his Philharmonic-Symphony men. Day after he arrived he attended a concert, went backstage in intermission and stopped a tremendous ovation to ask "Where is my first horn, Jaenicke?" Shy, red-faced Bruno Jaenicke, whom Toscanini considers the world's greatest horn player, had stayed home that day with a stomach-ache...