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Word: toscaninis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling at the White House, Duke Ellington presented Fellow Pianist Harry Truman with the latest Ellington score, Portrait of New York (commissioned by Arturo Toscanini, to be played Christmas night in Carnegie Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 2. Lily Pons and Ferruccio Tagliavini. 3. Eduard Werner and the Detroit Scandinavian Orchestra. 4. Rudolf Bing and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. 5. Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...every audience-measuring system known to radio, Jack Benny has long attracted many millions more listeners than Arturo Toscanini and his NBC Symphony. But box-office receipts in Cleveland's Public Auditorium tell a different story. Toscanini, stopping off on his U.S. tour, grossed $29,000 and played to an audience of 9,500. A week later in the same auditorium, Jack Benny's traveling show grossed a mere $11,000 from an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Top Man | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Toscanini's music seems to grow leaner with the years. In this new performance, he has scalpeled away pounds of the bombast with which the "Eroica" is too often fattened out; what remains is clear, bone-clean, but still well-muscled. Recording: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

This week, as he headed back east, Arturo Toscanini's only regret seemed to be that he didn't have time for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Having a Wonderful Time | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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