Word: toscaninis
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...Paderewski lately said, the greatest of the younger pianists. For the sleek young Russian has survived his superficial successes and grown to think more of music and less of showing off his amazing technique. He proved his maturity to New Yorkers last month when he played with Arturo Toscanini and gave real contemplation to Brahms's First Concerto. He proved himself again in Chicago last week where audiences cheered him wildly. For the Chicago concerts motherly Signora Toscanini broke precedent and left the Maestro working in Manhattan to hear her new son-in-law play in the Midwest...
...lumpish son 100 years ago, the world was blessed with one of its greatest musical creators. The infant son was Johannes Brahms, who lived to grow a beard which was worthy of his name. At the end of this I season that name will have added luster, for Arturo Toscanini is conducting the New York Philharmonic in no less than 18 all-Brahms concerts...
Thus comes to a climax a new popular enthusiasm for Brahms which has been mounting steadily these past ten years. Last week, after the mighty, culminating finale of Brahms' First Symphony, three thousand listeners rose, cried "Bravo! Bravo!" They cheered so long that Toscanini had to hurry in order to partake of the 3 5-pound turkey which Clarence Hungerford Mackay had sent him from his shooting-lodge in North Carolina...
Evidence, in part, of Lotte Lehmann's musicianship are the musical friends she has made. Toscanini attends all her recitals. She is Bruno Walter's favorite singer. The now wise and settled Farrar invites her to her country home in Ridgefield, Conn. A fan Lehmann uses in Der Rosenkavalier is a treasured talisman. Farrar carried it in her glamorous days...
...performance audience and players rose as one man to honor the world's greatest conductor. But Toscanini rapped quickly for attention and proceeded to make something vital and thrilling out of Bruckner's long-winded Seventh Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to cheer but the conductor plucked at the concertmaster's sleeve, his cue for the players to clear the stage. For Toscanini, who scorns the dessert of applause, the evening ended with the last mighty unison of the Bach-Respighi Prelude & Fugue...