Word: toscanini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ADMITTANCE signs plastered the doors of a room on S. S. Ile de France in mid-Atlantic. Behind the doors were famed Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 15. Every day while Yehudi played, Toscanini turned pages. One evening Conductor Toscanini presented Yehudi in the first-class salon as sole performer in the ship's concert. The boy had consented to play on condition that everyone aboard be permitted to attend. Proceeds: 40,000 francs...
...puppy metamor was headlined in the news, vigorously attacked. People who remembered the circumstances of Herr Furtwangler's New York Philharmonic engagement were inclined to dismiss his statement as a case of wounded vanity. His first U. S. concerts (1924-25) were brilliant. But after Toscanini came he let himself be heckled by adverse press criticism, lost his confidence, his force. At the end of his 1926-27 engagement he was not invited to return for the next season. He has been invited since then, by the Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, but he has been quoted as saying...
When Arturo Toscanini finished conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week the demonstration took the same emotional turn as the scene in Vienna 108 years ago Toscanini had given a great concert, perhaps the greatest he has ever given. But more, the audience had not seen & heard him for weeks. He had been sick (TIME Dec. 21). His conducting arm had failed him. He had had to cut short his season go back to Italy for treatments. The rumor that he might never come back had never quite been downed...
...imitation diamond ring. The concert last week, except for a few $250 boxes, was sold out the day it was announced. The Philharmonic Symphony sent back $10,000 in checks, turned thousands away from the boxoffice. At the hall when receipts were added it was found that Toscanini had earned some $26,000 for his jobless brothers, only $1,000 less than Paderewski raised in Madison Square Garden, which seats 18,903 against Carnegie...
...program had attracted everyone: the Prelude to Parsifal and the Good Friday Music, then the great Ninth Symphony. It was Toscanini's idea of "the perfect program." Wagner, in his last, leisurely opera worked with such themes as idealistic love, faith through suffering, purification, redemption. He varied them, interchanged them so masterfully, so melodiously that a certain haloed authenticity has become attached to his muddled allegory of the Grail-keepers...