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...Conductor Arturo Toscanini returns from Europe to his New York Philharmonic Symphony...
Under the head of "sustaining" programs (where the chain or the local station pays for the talent) are the 27 concerts to be broadcast (Columbia) by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Last week listeners heard Erich Kleiber, new Berlin conductor (TIME, Oct. 13). They will hear Arturo Toscanini in November, later Bernardino Molinari. Fortnight ago the Boston Symphony under Sergei Koussevitzky gave its first program exclusively for radio (N. B. C.) but the Boston Symphony will not broadcast regularly until Symphony Hall conditions are more favorable than they are now. The Metropolitan Opera continues to ignore radio. The Chicago Civic...
Last week it appeared that Widow Wagner found him. He was a bushy haired little Italian with a fierce mustache, conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony, the same Arturo Toscanini whose electric renditions of Tannhäuser and Tristan this summer brought acclaim as has been bestowed on no Bayreuth conductor since the War (TIME...
...Toscanini's début was like a breath of warm invigorating spring blowing from his sunny Milan through the bleak Cosimaridden atmosphere of the Sacred Hill. His name and fame hung out the "Ausverkauft" (sold-out) sign in the Festspielhaus long before the first performance. His brilliant Tannhäusers and sublime Tristans outshone even the Parsifals of so great an oldtime Wagnerian as Karl Muck whose conducting has been one of the few bright spots of recent festivals. The German orchestra with which Toscanini worked, whose language he did not know, grumbled at first over the almost...
...Toscanini's elevation would mark a final rupture with his longtime stronghold at Milan, rickety old La Scala. Henceforth Manhattan will engage his winters, Bayreuth his summers. Ructions with Italy's lantern-jawed dictator have expatriated him. In the recent Philharmonic triumph in Italy Mussolini attended none of the concerts, nor did he send any telegrams of congratulations...