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...Symphony musicians had seen their tall, usually self-confident program producer, Don Gillis, looking like a colicky cat before-the last time, the day Arturo Toscanini first rehearsed Gillis' new Symphony 5^ (TIME, Sept...
Brahms: Tragic Overture (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 4 sides). The competition is tough (Beecham, Toscanini), but this performance stands with the best of them. Recording: good...
Stryker paused to conjure up a picture of Toscanini at Carnegie Hall. "Now in a good orchestration," he declared, "there is always a theme. Perhaps the first violins take up the theme first . . . You sit back and soon [Toscanini] is bowing and the audience is a pulp." Said Stryker: "I pray I can stand in front of this orchestra of justice and take the theme of 'if you don't believe Chambers, then we have no case...
When Conductor Eugene Ormandy first announced the trip to England, wise guys in his Philadelphia Orchestra cracked, "Oh yeah?" They had been hearing about such tours for years, and the trips never came off. No big U.S. orchestra had been to Europe since Arturo Toscanini toured with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1930-and lost $250,000 doing it. Last week, to the wise guys' surprise, they were actually barnstorming through Britain...
...Toscanini was, said the critics (and for the sixth time), the best "regular symphony conductor": his performance of Verdi's A'ida (TIME, April' 4) was "the outstanding event of the year," and the National Broadcasting Go. (which has put Toscanini on the air for nine years without benefit of sponsors) was "the network most faithful to serious music...