Word: toscaninis
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When Maestro Toscanini scooted onstage, music-lovers in the peanut galleries leaned over the rails to hiss the buzz-buzz in the parquet into silence. Then, in the still, warm, muggy air (two women in the crowded audience fainted), they listened for three hours to the romantic music of Poet-Musician Arrigo Boito, whom all Milan was honoring on the 30th anniversary of his death...
...orchestra gave its first public performance and became the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra. Last year when the orchestra played for the radio, one listener-Arturo Toscanini-was delighted. He rushed to the phone and shouted to an NBC big shot: "This orchestra is wonderful ... who is this Rachmilovich? . . . Let's have him here...
Last week, Jacques Rachmilovich was on the podium in front of Toscanini's own NBC Symphony, to guest-conduct the first of two concerts. His programming followed Rachmilovich's principle of playing music that other U.S. orchestras have not yet done to death. Instead of Beethoven and Brahms, NBC fans heard Darius Milhaud's Suite Provençale and Dmitri Kabalevsky's fiery Fete Populaire...
...Toscanini telecasts, with their remarkable, moving close-ups of the maestro and the orchestra, were a television milestone (TIME, March 29). But pictures of jazz bands tootling are as dull on television as they are on a movie screen. Crooners, in particular, are finding the telecamera's unwinking stare an embarrassing experience. (Notable exception: NBC's pretty Singer Kyle MacDonnell, an unknown to radio listeners, but already becoming television's No. 1 pin-up girl...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. (The Boston Symphony Orchestra with Robert Shaw chorus, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 16 sides). Anyone who heard Toscanini's magnificent broadcast will want to avoid this album: the accents are muffled, the tempos sluggish and the heartbeat missing. Recording: poor...