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Since the death of Siegfried Wagner last summer, rumors and schemes for future Bayreuth Festivals have emanated from the little Bavarian village like steam from the spout of a teakettle. Most stories have concerned Conductor Arturo Toscanini whose stock has at present greater international value than that of any living conductor. Toscanini, said one rumor, would take over the complete artistic direction. He might even build a home in Bayreuth, pass the rest of his summers there...
After his press ordeal, Dr. Einstein had a good time in Manhattan. He looked up two old friends, Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Violinist Fritz Kreisler, called upon John Davison Rockefeller Jr., met Helen Keller. Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, invited the Einsteins to a concert, sat them in a box belonging to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. - So impressed were U. S. citizens with the fame of their guest that few atteided the significance of his remarks. At a meeting of the New History Society, Bahai (universal worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested...
Last week Stokowski anticipated the inevitable comparison with a press statement which lavishly extolled the genius of Toscanini in terms applicable to any great conductor, perhaps even to Stokowski himself. Excerpt: "The melodic line he molds just as a sculptor molds in soft clay the forms appearing under his fingers. . . . His originality of conception comes from his expressing the essence and soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through...
...Toscanini characteristically made no reply. In the six years he has conducted the Philharmonic, Toscanini has never given an interview, never explained his musical methods or described his diet. "I speak," he tells his friends, "a universal language. If the public cannot understand . . ." and he will shrug his shoulders. But his attitude is known to be one of humility. He regards himself as the servant of the composer, holds every note important...
...played to record-breaking audiences all the way from Portland, Me. to Chicago and East again, attracted hundreds who would never think of listening to other pianists. In Philadelphia he had to have the piano pushed offstage before his audience would leave the hall. Like Conductor Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Nov. 24) Paderewski is this year in the U. S. without his wife for the first time. Mme Paderewska is ill of an incurable disease in Switzerland...