Word: toscaninis
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...Also some grownups': Arturo Toscanini, arriving early at the NBC studio to conduct his first television concert (TIME, March 29), overlooked CBS's competing production (the Philadelphia Orchestra's first telecast) and happily tuned in Howdy...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:15-7:30 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...down the East Coast, televiewers, many of them seeing their first symphony concert, were stirred by the dynamic old man. And Toscanini, unnaturally docile about it all, was in top form. No less adroit was the photography of Director Hal Keith's three cameras. The television eye followed the music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat...
...Technicians noted one minor flaw: in the closeups, Toscanini's starched white cuffs made long shadows on the screen...
...close, it was obvious that no one would stop him for long. He is already scheduled to direct this summer's festival in his native Salzburg. Says crack Vienna Critic Heinrich Kralik: "He is still young and will grow. If he continues his development, he may achieve Toscanini." But, says cocksure Conductor Karajan, who once assisted Toscanini at the Salzburg festival: "Toscanini is Italian and I'm an Austrian. Nothing comes of emulating another conductor...