Word: toscaninis
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...Austrian Tyrol lies Salzburg, rimmed on three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...
Introduced for the first time to Mickey Mouse at a private showing of Walt Disney's The Band Concert in London, Arturo Toscanini exclaimed, "Surely it is impossible! It is magnificent!", had the film run over again. Hearing that Cine-man Disney planned a European tour, Conductor Toscanini announced: "I shall invite him to my Italian home at Lake Maggiore. Si, si, I shall insist...
...York, the Philharmonic was all set for its 94th season because of its $500,000 drive last year. Arturo Toscanini will return to direct ten weeks out of the 30-week season. Towering Otto Klemperer. by far the most successful of the other conductors engaged this past season by the Symphony Society, will conduct for 14 weeks, opening the season...
...goodbys seemed to be over last week with a weepy luncheon at which Geraldine Farrar acted as toastmistress. Gatti was mellow. He bestowed an impulsive, bearded kiss on Conductor Arturo Toscanini, his oldtime colleague and again his friend. Then Rosa Ponselle got up one last party, at sailing time. When Gatti hulked up on deck he found that she had invited hundreds of friends to surprise him. Every opera singer still in town said another tearful goodby, drank champagne toasts. Gatti seemed tired and bewildered. But he replied with "Viva America, Viva Italia, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Mussolini...
Marriage into Toscanini's family seems to have helped Horowitz to a more profound approach to music. But the way was hard. When he first met the great conductor he was so awed that he hunched in a corner all evening and was scolded by his friends for sulking. He married the Maestro's daughter Wanda in 1933. Next year Pianist Horowitz will remain in Europe for a tour that is already solidly booked...