Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toscanini, having sweated through his first telecast (TIME, March 29), decided to call off the second one. It was too hot under those lights, he complained. Howls of dismay from disappointed televiewers (and NBC's promise to turn up the studio cooling system) changed the old maestro's mind. At concert time, he appeared with no vest, breezed through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for a fitting finish to his tenth season with...
...Also some grownups': Arturo Toscanini, arriving early at the NBC studio to conduct his first television concert (TIME, March 29), overlooked CBS's competing production (the Philadelphia Orchestra's first telecast) and happily tuned in Howdy...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:15-7:30 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...Technicians noted one minor flaw: in the closeups, Toscanini's starched white cuffs made long shadows on the screen...
...close, it was obvious that no one would stop him for long. He is already scheduled to direct this summer's festival in his native Salzburg. Says crack Vienna Critic Heinrich Kralik: "He is still young and will grow. If he continues his development, he may achieve Toscanini." But, says cocksure Conductor Karajan, who once assisted Toscanini at the Salzburg festival: "Toscanini is Italian and I'm an Austrian. Nothing comes of emulating another conductor...