Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began lining up outside the Royal Festival Hall 60 hours in advance. They were allowed to sleep overnight in a corridor. Then the real queue began in front of the box office. In such fashion last week, London music lovers awaited the first English appearance since 1939 of Arturo Toscanini...
...queuers were hoping for standing room. Reserved seats had been gone since July. Within a few days of the announcement that Toscanini would conduct a pair of fall concerts, Festival Hall drew a flood of 60,000 requests for tickets. Since the hall could hold no more than 6,522 at the two concerts, reserved seats were parceled out by lot to every tenth applicant. The top price was raised from $1.70 to $14.70 a ticket, but music lovers hardly even blinked at the prices...
...Conductor Toscanini seemed to be as keen about his London visit as London was. In Milan last summer, he had heard the touring Philharmonia Orchestra for the first time, and had announced simply: "I must conduct...
...Director Gatti-Casazza as "a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other ..." Vacationing in Venice last week with her second husband, Manhattan Advertising Executive Ray Vir Den, she had a fatal stroke 36 hours before they were to hear Old Friend Toscanini conduct at La Scala...
...told of Mme. Alda's death until after the performance, Toscanini conducted believing that she was watching from the Toscanini...