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...wish to nominate Arturo Toscanini .. .because he is the greatest living musician. ... He sets the ultimate in standards for musicians and music lovers throughout the world...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini and an all-Mozart program...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini, marking the 100th anniversary of Mendelssohn's death with an all-Mendelssohn program...
Last week Caesar Petrillo, whose power over U.S. musicians extends from Toscanini to Harry James, decided that it was time to call a halt on the progress of Edison's handiwork. He ordered the 216,000 members of his American Federation of Musicians to stop making all recordings and radio transcriptions after Dec. 31. He was playing a familiar tune. He had once cracked: "What do I care about science; my boys gotta eat." But this time Caesar Petrillo brought his tune to a crashing crescendo. Said he: "We stop making recordings once and for all-period...
Most readers will wish that they could hear Toscanini's side of the record. Writes O'Connell: "Toscanini loves no one. On his sleeve he wears not his heart but his spleen. . . . I think Mr. Toscanini has had a baneful effect on musical beliefs and standards in America. . . . His conception [of Bach's St. Matthew Passion] revealed him as a man of exquisite, ineffable, and almost infallible vulgarity-a peculiarly Italianate and melodramatic and theatrical vulgarity, exposed in a variety of musical horrors...