Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arturo Toscanini, rejecting a "loving appeal" for his return to Milan and its La Scala Opera, broadcast an unminced reply: "I shall be happy to return among you as a citizen of a free Italy, but not as a subject of the degenerate king and the princes of the House of Savoy. ... All the vestiges of a past of ignominy and treachery must disappear...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major (Vladimir Horowitz and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 12 sides). A reissue of a brilliant 1941 recording. Performance and recording: excellent...
Once more she floated by. Toscanini's birch baton stopped in midair, his left arm was raised in a gesture of supplication. Then he dropped both arms to his sides, jutted his square chin forward, lowered his head. The orchestra gave...
When she had been removed, Toscanini the Temperamental stood indecisive, holding up one hand while he mopped his balding head with the other. Then he turned back to the musicians, and there was deep laughter in his eyes. He raised his baton, looked quickly over the orchestra and said, "Well, the waltz...
...tiny apartment strewn with Toscanini photographs and record albums, the dancer, 26-year-old Helen Faville, a student of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn (see below) said "You see, I am spiritually married to [Toscanini]. When he began directing the waltz . . . I could sense him saying 'Now'-and I was ready to dance...