Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been rated high as violinists, cellists, pianists and opera singers, no U.S. maestro has so far reached international fame as a symphony conductor."This scarcity of important U.S. maestros has long kept U.S. critics and concertgoers guessing. Commonest rationalizations : 1) Americans lack the dictatorial temperament characteristic of men like Toscanini, Stokowski, Koussevitzky ; 2) the U.S. lacks bush-league opera houses and symphony orchestras such as provide European maestros with experience...
...finest of all U.S. cellists and one of the half-dozen best in the world. But Cellist Wallenstein stuck to orchestra playing, played for seven years with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony as first cellist for his intimate friend and patron, Arturo Toscanini. When Toscanini resigned from the Philharmonic in 1936, Wallenstein resigned...
...Beat of the Master. He took with him a knowledge of symphonic conducting based on a careful study of every flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...
...freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House chanted: "Where is Toscanini? He must inaugurate the new Scala season." Thousands went on strike in the factories of Pirelli (tires), Bianchi (trucks), Breda (tanks) and Marelli (electrical equipment...
Horowitz has been able to achieve much more rapport with his great father-in-law. Toscanini has given him brilliant support in two of the most bravura concerto recordings ever made: the Tchaikovsky Concerto (a fabulous best-seller), and the B Flat Major Concerto of Brahms...