Word: toscanini
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...less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because a Fascist official demanded that Arturo Toscanini play "Giovinezza" at a memorial concert in Bologna devoted to the works of his friend, the late Giuseppe Martucci (1856- 1909). It was even more natural that the world should become indignant because a group of Fascisti assaulted him for his refusal...
...villa high above St. Moritz in Switzerland, a pale and haggard Toscanini was last week recovering from Fascist buffets. Soon he would go to Wahnfried ("Dream-Peace"), the villa Richard Wagner built at Bayreuth. There, as guest of Frau Winifred Wagner (widow of the late Siegfried and director of Bayreuth affairs), he was to begin rehearsals for the opening concert of the summer festival. Because his art demanded tranquillity, he wished no further discussion of the incident. But Italy was behind him; at last the world could view his case whole...
...everyone knows, Conductor Toscanini is violently antiFascist. His political views as well as his low opinion of the musical value of "Giovinezza" prompted him long ago to refuse to play it, and il Fascismo once became so irritated as to threaten him with its famed, ugly castor oil cure. It was no new experience for him when Leandro Arpinati. Under Secretary of the Interior, and Boss of Bologna, requested that before the Bologna concert last month he perform the Fascist tune and the ''Marcia Reale" (royal march of the house of Savoy). Though Conductor Toscanini suspected no trap...
...confusion of reports that followed the press of Italy was unanimous in its condemnation of Toscanini. The maestro's friends insisted that the attack was a carefully-planned ambush. A cautious French press made no mention of the incident. Carabinieri. soldiers, detectives watched the Toscanini house in Milan; he was a prisoner; his passport was withdrawn; he would be disciplined, it was said, by Dictator Mussolini. Last week his passport was returned and it was reported that he had been guarded only because civil authorities feared further incidents...
Tannhäuser, recorded at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, conducted by Karl Elmendorff (Columbia, $36)?The production to which the world's music wisest flocked last summer, faithfully given as Arturo Toscanini prepared it. More thrilling than any recent flesh & blood performance in the U. S. is the "Venus" of Contralto Ruth Jost-Arden, the ''Wolfram" of Baritone Herbert Janssen. flawlessly reproduced...