Word: toscaninis
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...inevitable flare-up of the day, this time over the absence without leave of a couple of trumpeters. The guest pianist watched the little tantrum, then, turning towards his wife and friends in the studio, wigwagged his eyebrows and giggled. For the soloist was a man who calls Toscanini "Maestro" to his face, but "Papa" when he's not around...
...been three years since Pianist Vladimir Horowitz had played in public with father-in-law Arturo Toscanini. But they had played the work together before, and recorded it together-Brahms's mighty Piano Concerto No. 2. This time, at the end of the rehearsal, the Maestro had only one suggestion for "Volodya": Toscanini trotted to the piano, plunked out a passage while Soloist Horowitz, standing by and towering over him, listened carefully and respectfully. They agreed to leave out one retard...
Last week, the mob of music fans who stormed into Radio City's modernistic Studio 8-H for the opening concert of Toscanini's eleventh NBC season, heard a concert to be remembered. As usual, shy, nervous Pianist Horowitz almost had to be propelled onstage. But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished. When it was finally over, little, white-topped Papa and slender, dark-haired Volodya stood together, bowing...
...Arturo Toscanini & NBC Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). First of an all-Brahms series. Piano soloist: Vladimir Horowitz...
...Chairs. Nobody could quarrel with Billy's replacements, if they could be had. "To the left of the chairman sits Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...