Word: toscaninis
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...lunch. By nightfall there was a call for extra police. The crowd grew until 5,000 persons were clamoring for admittance to standing room available for only 140. No one had ever foreseen a near-riot for a Philharmonic concert, not even for the U. S. farewell of Arturo Toscanini...
...March day last week's concert was first announced, every seat in Carnegie Hall was sold at topnotch prices within a few hours. Subsequent demands fairly exhausted the patience of the box-office staff. One person would argue that he had never heard a Toscanini performance, that this was therefore his last chance. The next in line would claim that he had attended all the Maestro's concerts, that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East...
...Valkyries ended the program, brought the audience to its feet, too moved at first to cheer the conductor as he turned from the players, looking suddenly tired. In that tense moment a news cameraman popped up at the footlights, exploded a flashlight directly in the Maestro's face. Toscanini fled to the wings. Out leaped Bruno Zirato, the Philharmonic's assistant manager, to seize the photographer by the scruff, hustle him out to the lobby where detectives and doormen de prived him of his camera and the plate he had used...
...audience wanted more of Toscanini, clapped, stamped, cheered. But the little Italian never returned. Instead Maurice Van Praag, the Orchestra's personnel manager, faced the clamoring crowd, said: "The man who just came down here and snapped that picture almost blinded our beloved Maestro. He asks me to say that he loves you all and begs to be excused." With that a mighty chorus of boos and hisses filled the Hall...
...issue of your valued publication with a great deal interest. I can't understand why you have not even mentioned the name of Bruno Walter who I think is one of the most outstanding conductors throughout the entire world. I even feel that he is equal to Toscanini and why his name is not mentioned is beyond my comprehension...