Word: toscanini
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...wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended...
...Zimbalist and his wife Alma Gluck, or for Jascha Heifetz. Sometimes, with one of these three the quartet would become temporarily a quintet. Admirers prevailed on them to give a series of recitals. They did so and found themselves famed. Such great virtuosos and maestros as Zimbalist, Heifetz, Arturo Toscanini verbally crowned the young artists with laurel, forecast shining future:. Singer Gluck created a fund to aid them, received contributions from Manhattan's music-loving Warburgs, Kahns, Guggenheimers, Lewisohns. Thus blessed they went forth as the Musical Art Quartet, and for four seasons have passed from fame to fame...
Barber of Seville Overture by Conductor Arturo Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (Victor, $2)-Melodies from the great opera bouffe given Mozartian grace by Toscanini...
Discerning Americans are learning that the U. S. has a musical institution quite as deserving of pilgrims from afar as Germany's annual Wagner festival at Bayreuth or the famed Opera at Paris (lately mediocre indeed) or La Scala at Milan (which badly misses Conductor Arturo Toscanini). To rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore (20 mi. out) go more and more visitors each year, to hear what is easily the best summer opera to be found anywhere in the world...
...King was late and so was the Queen at London's Albert Hall one afternoon last week. Conductor Arturo Toscanini did the unprecedented, held the New York Philharmonic-symphony waiting for more than ten minutes. Then spying the sedate Queen entering the royal box, he struck up "God Save the King" (King George alone stayed seated), followed it with "The Star Spangled Banner'' (the King stood with the rest), a Rossini overture and a heavy Teutonic program. Never before (the verdict was unanimous) had Britishers heard such a concert. Ten thousand cheered after each number. During the intermission the King...