Word: toscanini
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...plunges into the brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must get out. He realizes that the society that obsesses...
...energy and enthusiasm, has the widest background as a soloist, acts as spokesman and arbitrator of musical disagreements Violinist Bernard Eichen, 36, the newest member of the group with only one year's tenure, is a nonstop quipster who gave his first recital at age nine and joined Toscanini's NBC Symphony at 19. Violist John Graham, 31, a modern-music enthusiast and the quiet intellectual of the group, plans all of its programs. Cellist Bruce Rogers, 36, a missionary's son who was raised in Kenya, provides a solid foundation for the quartet as much with...
BEETHOVEN: THE NINE SYMPHONIES (RCA Victrola; 8 LPs). Another big package, but at the bargain price of $20. Not everyone agrees with Arturo Toscanini's distinctly brisk, no-nonsense approach to Beethoven. About the heroic first movement of the Third Symphony, the maestro once dryly commented: "Some say this is Napoleon, some Hitler, some Mussolini. For me it is simply allegro con brio." Still, Toscanini's brio was like no one else's, and the NBC Symphony strikes sparks as it builds to one peak of excitement after another, and then softly and precisely casts long incandescent...
...reply to the doubting voices of tradition: "Some people treat us as if we were still kids in the playpen. All of us have already done enough to be more highly regarded than that. I think we will be as great as the generation of Furtwängler and Toscanini...
...Scala's Claudio Abbado, 34, is a stern, urgent pursuer of the long musical line, a Toscanini-like stickler for both fine-mesh detail and overall coherence. Imperious and intensely concentrated, he spurs an orchestra on with a clean, incisive beat, often achieving a surging pulse and crackling inner tension. He excels with the original texts of operas, giving them what one critic calls an "electric-shock treatment...