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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini, after a two-months' vacation, conducts Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet (first half). Soloists: Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, Tenor John Garris...
...Sudden. In 1933 she was hired by the Paris Opera-Comique, sang more than 250 Carmens and Mignons in seven years. When the Nazis took Paris, she fled to the U.S. For nearly two years New York considered her just another refugee. Then Toscanini signed her to sing Juliette in Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald...
...admire the manufacturing capacity and all the wonderful technical, scientific, industrial, etc. discoveries and advances which have come from your country . . . . But no one in the world respects anything of your country, in the full and real sense of the word like one does an Einstein, British Justice, Sweden, Toscanini, Switzerland, the dignity and patriotism of the Germans hung in Nuörnberg in a disgraceful parody of justice, a Nobel prize winner, etc., etc. The only respect a citizen of the U.S.A. may claim from the world would be the respect of fear, because of his country...
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") in C (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 7 sides). The Maestro's "Jupiter" suffers from mushy recording, which makes Bruno Walter's 1945 version with the New York Philharmonic preferable...
...Concerto No. 2 in C Minor; Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor; Grieg's Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra; Schubert's Symphony No. 8 [Unfinished] in B Minor; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Arturo Toscanini conducting Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite; a medley of Sigmund Romberg show tunes; Vladimir Horowitz playing piano pieces by Saint-Saëns, Czerny and Tchaikovsky; and an album called Two Sisters from Boston, in which the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior sings Hollywoodian "arias...