Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fulfillment of a dream!" crowed NBC's General David Sarnoff: "What a joy it is that this can be done while our beloved maestro is still a young man." And with that, Arturo Toscanini, who will be 81 this week, raised his baton, and led the NBC Symphony into its first televised concert...
...nose, with a telecast of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was an interesting performance: Maestro Eugene Ormandy, unwarily popping a peppermint into his mouth in midpassage; the camera ogling the girl members of the orchestra. But for most televiewers it was just a curtain raiser for Toscanini, half an hour later...
...down the East Coast, televiewers, many of them seeing their first symphony concert, were stirred by the dynamic old man. And Toscanini, unnaturally docile about it all, was in top form. No less adroit was the photography of Director Hal Keith's three cameras. The television eye followed the music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini and an all-Wagner concert...
...something of a quick-change artist. Last week, for example, he was a solemn reader of blank verse (Living-1948), a slightly sardonic moderator (Author Meets the Critics), a whimsical telecast quizmaster (Americana Hall), a rather bubbly announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club). On the NBC Symphony, he had to hurry ("Toscanini won't wait a second," he confided, "I really have to rush before the downbeat...