Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four magic years, 1934-38, Salzburg was Europe's place-to-go in August. Since 1842, the city's Austrian Burgers had honored Native Son Mozart with a summer music festival, and since 1900 it had attracted music lovers. Then, in 1934, Arturo Toscanini moved to Salzburg, and thousands came by train and plane to see and hear him. After Anschluss and the departure of Fascist-hater Toscanini, Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler took over and the festivals became Nazi celebrations...
Tribute & Applause. The Fascists did their best to make a great musician of Pietro Mascagni, and he cooperated. In 1926, he was appointed Arturo Toscanini's successor as director of Milan's La Scala. He obliged by composing a Hymn of Labor. The obedient Fascist press hailed his 1935 opera Nero, a musical tribute to Mussolini's Italy, but it flopped anyway...
Since last October, when she left a Manhattan hospital, she has been living quietly in a 17-room, rambling Tudor mansion in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, overlooking the Hudson River. She has seen almost no one, not even her nearest neighbor, Maestro Arturo Toscanini...
Just one of Camden's harps will be plucked by a man. Black-haired, excitable, French-born Carlos Salzedo, 60, is the maestro of Camden's harp school. Arturo Toscanini wanted him as first harpist in his Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and imported him to the U.S. in 1909. Salzedo is now a concert harpist, who turns pedagogue in the summer colony which he founded fifteen years ago to fill the demand for symphony orchestra harpists...
Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides)«. An authoritative job which should discourage lesser conductors from trying. Performance and recording: excellent...