Word: toscanini
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...Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring him to the stage from which he took his last bow in 1908, standing between Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Tenor Enrico Caruso...
Francisco Symphony's conductor, now spelling Arturo Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic, stayed in California long enough this autumn to open the symphony season in San Francisco's new War Memorial Opera House, to win $25 from the beating California gave Stanford at football. Then he hurried to Manhattan where he scored the quick success that San Franciscans had prophesied for him. Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) gets dynamic effects by constantly fluttering his left hand, tossing his black head, whipping the air nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight...
...Jeno) Ormandy. Not long afterwards the sudden illness of the Capitol conductor gave Ormandy a chance to show that he could conduct Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony from memory. Eugene Ormandy was leading a radio orchestra when he was called upon last year to pinch-hit for Conductor Arturo Toscanini whose glass arm kept him from leading the Philadelphia Orchestra (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). He did so well that the Minneapolis Symphony engaged him to substitute for sick Henri Verbrug-ghen, kept him for its permanent conductor...
...trains the men. (He claims that many of the players lost their jobs because they had lost their hair. The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman, now stands behind the kettledrums in Toscanini's orchestra.) Each concert has a different guest-conductor. Some of this season's guests: Gershwin. Reiner, Rodzinski, Stokowski. Stock, Harty...
Merola is no Toscanini but he is probably the world's nerviest, luckiest conductor. Some years ago he gave open-air opera at Stanford Stadium, lost his Italian backers a tidy sum. But at just the right time each evening a full moon rose...