Word: toscaninis
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After tabbing up ballots from 700 critics and editors in the U.S. and Canada, Musical America handed out its annual honors for the season's best broadcasting musicians. Just as he had nearly every year since 1944, when the magazine made its first poll, 82-year-old Arturo Toscanini ran away with the show...
...pandemonium was saved for the old masters. Trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page's "émotion authentique" blues soon had them breaking their hands for joy. Grizzled Sidney Bechet, who has been nozzling out New Orleans classics on clarinet and soprano sax since 1911, got a Toscanini's wild and respectful ovation, And when Yardbird Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar, the zazous drooled, twitched and finally screamed...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 10 sides). The performance that Tchaikovsky fans have been waiting for. Recording (on Vinylite) : excellent...
...while singing the French words along with the chorus and carefully exaggerating his lip movements of assist the singers in pronunciation. He usually uses a baton, but occasionally, he may leave it idle in his left hand. He sings along with the strings as loud if not louder than Toscanini does. He shushes for pianissimos, exhorts for fortissimes. Sometimes he depicts the music physically, but where other conductors often merely imitate the motions of a violin bow or a cymbal, (something which has no value for anyone except the audience) Munch attempts to portray the spirit of the interpretation...
Despite his great popularity, Munch is a very modest man very much aware of his own defects. Once many years ago, when Toscanini was conducting a French orchestra usually conducted by Munch, he unobtrusively took a seat in the first violins and played with the orchestra to learn how Toscanini gets his effects...