Word: toscanini
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...pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival. Over and over she read the telegram which Toscanini had sent from Florence. "The lamentable events which have wounded my feelings both as man and as artist have not up to this moment changed, despite...
...Bayreuth had prayed that Toscanini would stay immune to Hitleritis. Toscanini, like other Bayreuth performers, takes no pay for conducting at the festivals. His appearances there assure the festival's financial as well as its artistic success. Toscanini's friends knew that refusing to go to Bayreuth seemed to him almost like betraying Wagner, that in his distress over the whole situation he was past feeling such thrusts as the one last week published in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung: "The great musician, with incorruptible ears ever mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard...
...week. Officials of the Berlin municipal insurance system announced that they would pay the bills of no Jewish physicians rendered after April 1. Because they signed an official protest against persecution of Jewish musicians in Germany, German radio stations were ordered to bar all records or compositions by Arturo Toscanini, Walter Damrosch, Sergei Koussevitzky, Artur Bodanzky, Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch...
Musicians the world over are waiting to see whether or not Arturo Toscanini will fulfill his plan to conduct at Bayreuth this summer. Last week Toscanini vehemently expressed his resentment of the way his colleagues have been treated by requesting that his name be the first one signed to a musicians' protest cabled to Chancellor Hitler. In an open letter Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch recalled the attack made on Toscanini two years ago in Italy when he refused to conduct the Fascist anthem, how other musicians stood by him then. Sergei Koussevitzky going so far as to cancel concerts...
Bayreuth will suffer sadly if exposed to Hitleritis. Toscanini has not conducted in Italy since the fracas over the Fascist anthem. Boston hurt herself more than she hurt Karl Muck when she ousted him on an unproven Wartime charge of pro-Germanism. After the Revolution. Russia forced most of her musicians into exile. Many years will pass before Russia regains the musical prestige it lost with such refugees as Feodor Chaliapin, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofieff, Sergei Rachmaninoff...