Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute, Divertimento in B-Flat for Strings and Two Horns, "Haffner" Symphony in D Major. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini opens his tenth season conducting Berlioz' Harold in Italy, Wagner's A Faust Overture. Soloist: Violist William Primrose...
...Three. Two of the best three classical programs have no sponsors as the season begins. Arturo Toscanini returns to the NBC Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., E.S.T.) on Oct. 27, minus his General Motors sponsor that paid $1,250,000 for the hour last year. Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T., ABC) open this week, with no sponsor. But once again U.S. Rubber is underwriting the New York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., E.S.T., CBS) with Artur Rodzinski conducting...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Anne McNight, protégée of Arturo Toscanini, and Baritone Todd Duncan sing duets from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata...
...Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...