Word: toscaninis
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...booming baritone of the violin family, and it takes a young and husky man to play it. From 17th-century Italian Domenico Gabrielli to 20th-century Russian Gregor Piatigorsky, successful cellists have been men of brawn. Lesser cellists, like Composer Jacques Offenbach, Composer Victor Herbert, and Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular Bernhard Romberg...
...world's most famed places of musical pilgrimage, Austria's Salzburg, last week appeared on the verge of losing its eminence. It had already lost its three leading artistic personalities, Italian Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who resigned (TIME, Feb. 28), Jewish Conductor Bruno Walter, who was last week safe in The Netherlands although his daughter was arrested in Vienna, and Jewish Stage Director Max Reinhardt whose two Salzburg presentations were canceled. The moment was therefore favorable for revived talk of a U. S. Salzburg...
Last week Mexico's No. 1 musician, wiry, dynamic Carlos Chavez, entered NBC's Studio 8-H to conduct the first of two Saturday night broadcasts. First to follow famed Maestro Toscanini at the head of NBC's new $600,000-a-year radio orchestra, Conductor Chavez drew a studio audience in which the mink coats and white ties of previous broadcasts were conspicuously absent. Programmed were two of Conductor Chavez' own compositions: the energetic, Stravinsky-influenced Sinfonia de Antigona; and the Sinfonia India, in which Composer Chavez uses several authentic Mexican Indian themes...
Among those who watched Arturo Toscanini conduct the last of his eleven NBC broadcasts, was James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, director of American Commercial Alcohol Corp., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York, lecturer on Shakespeare, former heavyweight champion. Impressed by Mr. Toscanini's vigor, he ejaculated: "It would take four heavyweight champions to do it like he does...
...Deepest dumps were in Portland, Ore., where the 27-year-old Portland Symphony, in spite of assiduous nursing by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, gave its last concert and disbanded for lack of funds. Loudest whooping came from Manhattan, where NBC officials announced proudly that famed Maestro Toscanini had signed up for another three years of expensive winter symphonic broadcasts...