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Word: toscaninis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There seemed to be not a dull moment anywhere for Maestro Ariuro Toscanini, 83, and his barnstorming NBC Symphony Orchestra. In Dallas, a cloudburst drenched 4,600 people just at concert time. Women hiked up their long evening dresses and men peeled off their shoes and socks and waded through deep puddles to get to the Fair Park Auditorium. Next day, Toscanini's son Walter conked a Los Angeles newspaper photographer with a movie camera for popping a flashbulb too close to the Maestro as they stepped off a plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Voice of America: What It Tells the World | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Tipped off by his 20-year-old grandson, Walfredo, touring Maestro Arturo Toscanini, 83, surprised a cheering, stomping Richmond audience of 5,000 with a virtuoso performance of Dixie. What did the world's greatest conductor think of the song? Said Toscanini: "Very exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...Carlo had composed two operas and finished five years of ginnasio and a year and a half of liceo in Milan-"the usual European classical education, a great bore." Far from a bore for him were the family's jaunts to their box at La Scala to hear Toscanini conduct opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer on Broadway | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...Cristiano Dalla Mangas, bass; Rosanna Carteri, soprano; Lina Pagliughi, soprano; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano; Amalia Pini, mezzo-soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically it is all of a piece and just as valid. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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