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...death, this comic muralist had left the fullest scrapbook of a century dominated by entertainment. He drew, and drew out the spirit of, thousands of celebrities from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Anna Magnani, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study...
...ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR: PW and Kirkus both give starred reviews to "The Letters of Arturo Toscanini," edited by Harvey Sachs (Knopf; April 28). Says Kirkus, "A rich and vivid collection of the great conductor?s correspondence. Music historian Sachs (no relation) learned of these letters after publishing his definitive biography (?Toscanini,? 1978), and while they contain no startling revelations, they give us a much better understanding of a man who famously refused all interviews and wrote no memoirs. In his introduction, Sachs predicts that Toscanini?s numerous affairs will garner the most attention, and there are indeed many, many pages...
...Shakespeare's fat knight, set to music by Verdi. Now Bryn Terfel, Wales' contribution to the gaiety of nations, has put the best of all possible comic operas on record, igniting every line with his sly wit and redwood-sized bass-baritone voice. Don't throw away your old Toscanini album--Claudio Abbado's conducting is sometimes a bit fussy--but Terfel is as fine a Falstaff as has ever lived, and Thomas Hampson is splendid as Ford, the hypersuspicious husband whom Sir John longs to cuckold. If current events are weighing you down, let Verdi buoy you back...
...option is the due to the work of students who are less concerned about whether their coffee cup says Starbucks or Toscanini's than they are with a different type of label-the Fair Trade Certified seal...
...first appeared in the Cambridge area in October 1999 by providing food, video rentals and retail items to customers' doors in less than an hour. Students who used the service to rent videos could return the cassettes at drop boxes located in businesses throughout Harvard Square, such as Toscanini's, Starbucks and The Wrap...