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Concerts certain to cause as much comment as any this season will be given during the next fortnight in Manhattan and Philadelphia. Arturo Toscanini will leave his Philharmonic-Symphony, go to Philadelphia to conduct Leopold Stokowski's Orchestra. Stokowski will go to Manhattan to conduct the Philharmonic. Changing boats in the middle of the stream is a unique venture for conductors, a challenge to audiences to compare their talents...
...Come with me to Heaven, but come on wings. Do not climb by a ladder." With this exhortation last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed his Philharmonic-Symphony players through the great C Minor Symphony of Johannes Brahms. Tenderly, painstakingly, he molded every phrase and his men, as one, obeyed him. Magnificently he soared through the concluding chorale and even the stodgiest horn-player seemed to find the wings with which to follow. Then the little Italian called a pause, ate a bowl of soup with a raw egg in it before going on with the preparation of his first Manhattan...
...Manhattan Toscanini is even more of a god this year than last. After he left last April he won unprecedented triumphs in Paris, Vienna, Leipzig, Berlin, London (TIME, May 19, 26). He conducted Tannhauser and Tristan at Bayreuth, gave new life to the declining Wagner festivals, was asked to take over the artistic direction. But despite his successes he came back last week depressed, lonely. In Bayreuth he was deeply affected by the death of Siegfried Wagner. After his own Philharmonic, the Bayreuth Orchestra was a constant source of displeasure and disappointment to him. And on July 13 large, capable...
...Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...
...13?Conductor Arturo Toscanini returns from Europe to his New York Philharmonic Symphony...