Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such an album is the new recording of the Beethoven Fifth Symphony on Victor Records by Arturo Toscanini and the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra...
Only three other pianists (all world-famed veterans) could top his earning power: Ignace Jan Paderewski, Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1933 he joined music's royal family by marrying Wanda Toscanini, daughter of the world's No. 1 Maestro. By 1935 he had sold out 350 U. S. concerts. At $1,500 a performance, his concerts were grossing $300,000 a year...
Mozart: Symphony in G Minor, K. 550 (NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor: 6 sides). Feverish Composer Mozart wrote his greatest three symphonies in six busy weeks. Maestro Toscanini and his NBC men give one of the three a brilliant, driving, but not too well-recorded performance...
...Sample boners: that Leopold Stokowski taught the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to play Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps in 1930 (famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler had done it five years before); that Harpo Marx tunes his harp backwards (Harpo's tuning, though unorthodox, is not backwards); that Toscanini cannot see the men in his orchestra (Toscanini, farsighted, can see quite well beyond six feet...
Other editors' "musts": Guy Lombardo's orchestra (Jukebox Champion Glenn Miller fifth, Swingster Benny Goodman seventh); Arturo Toscanini for symphonies; Bing Crosby for popular songs; Nelson Eddy for classics; Songstress Frances Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...