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...Arturo Toscanini, one of the foremost orchestra conductors in the world, died yesterday at the age of 89. Death came at his home in Riverdale, the Bronx, at 8:40 a.m. He had been suffering from the after-effects of a stroke, which occurred on New Year...
...Toscanini had been in retirement since 1954, when he retired as conductor of the National Broadcasting Company Symphony Orchestra, a position which he had held for many years. Prior to that, he had conducted the Metropolitan Opera Company and the New York Philharmonic...
Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, yesterday expressed his great admiration for Toscanini. Referring to his conducting genius, Piston attributed Toscanini's success partly to his drive for perfection, his personality, and his great knowledge of musical scores, which he always conducted from memory...
...radio sets to 127 million radios and 38 million TV sets, NBC kept the air buzzing with such big names and pioneering feats as the Clicquot Club Eskimos, Amos 'n' Andy, Graham MacNamee and the first short-wave relay from England (1929), Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie...
Died. Guido Cantelli, 36, gaunt, brilliant Italian conductor, en route to New York for an American concert series and a dinner engagement with his friend and mentor, 89-year-old Arturo Toscanini; in the crash of an Italian airliner shortly after its take-off from Paris. At 25, Cantelli was the youngest conductor ever to lead Milan's famed La Scala orchestra, of which he was appointed permanent conductor a fortnight ago. Toscanini's fond verdict: "He conducts like...