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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Robert Shaw Chorale, NBC Symphony and soloists conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor, 2 LPs). Beethoven's most massive vocal work. Cruelly demanding on both singers and listeners, it was performed only once during his lifetime. It is no less demanding today, and some of the strain shows in this version. The Maestro gives it a feeling of magnificent urgency despite the fact that the soloists sound faint and distant...
Boston Symphony concerts on the radio next year will replace those of the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, which will be broken up because of the recent retirement of its conductor, Arturo Toscanini...
That night the papers carried the news which for a week had been kept a strict secret even from his own musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music...
Flaming Spirit. The NBC Symphony, formed especially for Toscanini 17 years ago and built by him into one of the world's great orchestras, will continue under guest conductors for at least the next eight weeks. Its probable replacement over NBC: the Boston Symphony, under Charles Munch (TIME, April...
...Arturo Toscanini himself is expected to go to Italy for the summer. Whether he will return to the U.S.-or whether he will ever conduct again-nobody knows. But his 68 years on the podium are already a legend. Wrote New York Times Critic Olin Downes: "Should this have been his permanent farewell... his name will remain supreme and his achievement immortally revered. There has never been a more gallant and intrepid champion of great music, or a spirit that flamed higher, or a nobler defender of the faith...