Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climax of his winter conducting season, Arturo Toscanini picked Beethoven's soaring Missa Solemnis. Following his baton in Carnegie Hall last week were Basso Jerome Hines, Tenor Eugene Conley, and Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman as soloists, the members of the NBC Symphony and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Amidst this phalanx of well-known U.S. artists was one soloist few Americans had ever so much as heard of: a 28-year-old Toronto soprano named Lois Marshall. From now on, listeners are going to hear a lot more...
...performance that even Toscanini has rarely equaled for fire and devotion, there was no single standout. But Marshall's soprano, as the highest solo voice, could be heard floating magnificently above even the massed ensemble. In the more subdued sections of Beethoven's Mass, her tone was pure and wellrounded, her florid passages had a liquid sound and her phrasing a natural warmth that her colleagues, for all their greater experience, never quite matched...
...Canada when she won a Naumburg Award to cover the cost of a Manhattan debut last year. In December, she gave a Town Hall recital that won her enthusiastic reviews. That did it. She was signed up for a U.S. tour for next season and got a tryout with Toscanini. He was murmuring "Brava" before she had gone very far, "Bravissima...
...Symphony (Sat. 5:45 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Singers Lois Marshall, Nan Merriman, Eugene Conley, Jerome Hines...
...Arturo Toscanini...