Word: toscanini
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...conducted by Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan. Germany's offerings are endless. In Berlin, beginning May 19, operatic activities include Wagner, Strauss and Mozart cycles, festival concerts under the direction of Conductors Furtwaengler, Kleiber, Klemperer, Walter; guest appearances of the Scala Opera of Milan under the direction of Toscanini. In Munich, the usual Wagner & Mozart Festival takes place from July 23 to August 31 at the Prince Regent and Residence Theatres. Musical events in Vienna and lower Austria from June 2 to 16 include ballets and serenades by the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Schalk and Clemens Krauss; a concert...
Curiouser and curiouser are Leopold Stokowski's programs. Visiting Manhattan in the wake of the great, departing Toscanini, he led his Philadelphians-instrumentally the world's finest-through what many a critic pronounced "the poorest orchestral program of the year." Three U. S. works were introduced: Prelude to a Drama, by Sandor Harmati, conductor of the Omaha Orchestra; Study in Sonority (for 40 violins-title by Stokowski), by Wallingford Riegger, New York pedagog; Indian Dances, by Frederick Jacobi, of California...
Last week, a group of stragglers arrived late for a Toscanini concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. They clattered down the aisle, banged down their seats, threw back their coats. They may have thought themselves unnoticed but the little man on the conductor's dais had been disturbed. He wheeled on them, crossed his arms in a Napoleonic attitude, stared them up and down and said, quite distinctly, "You are late!" Philadelphia audiences have been frequently rebuked by Conductor Leopold Stokowski; Manhattan, never before...
Mozart's Haffner Symphony was first - Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg. Mozart wrote it in less than a fortnight, when he was 26. Toscanini himself lost 35 of his 61 years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part...
...until his mistress had to take him outside. He was not a common little dog, however. He was a little dog who has attended many a concert. His barking was certainly not laughter "to see such sport." He was really excited. His name is Picciu. His mistress is Madame Toscanini...