Word: toscaninis
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...ermine come out of the closets of the wealthy, precious tickets are clutched firmly by the poor but cultured, and Music returns to its own in the U. S. Last week the season began on a national scale. In Boston well-groomed Sergei Koussevitzky, in Manhattan electric Arturo Toscanini, in Philadelphia blond-mopped Leopold Stokowski raised their batons over the country's leading orchestras. As usual, and contrary to advance notices which promised conventional music for the troublous times (TIME, Sept. 12), Stokowski produced the weirdest sounds. Four-fifths of his first audience walked out early when...
Honored. Henry Ford, the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy; University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, knighthood in the French Legion of Honor; General Douglas MacArthur, the Grand Cross of the Rumanian Order of the Star; Arturo Toscanini and Campbell Bascom Slemp, the commander's cravat of the French Legion of Honor; Professor Auguste Piccard, knighthood in the Belgian Order of Leopold; Poet Maurice Maeterlinck, grand officer in the Legion of Honor...
...March 1929 tall, jolly Pianist-Conductor Ernest Schelling was rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts...
...Robert Thompson Pell from drowning (TIME, July 11). Last week, wearing his customary chamois gloves, he arrived back in Manhattan. He would celebrate in the autumn the tenth anniversary of the Children's Concerts, he said. And, his felon nearly gone, he would give piano recitals, resume with Toscanini on Oct. 20 the "Artist's Life" performance which has been postponed these three and one-half years...
...sitting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last February for the Musicians' Emergency Aid. Nearly as much for the same purpose was realized by the "perfect program" (Wagner's Parsifal Prelude and Good Friday Music. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) which Arturo Toscanini crossed the ocean specially to conduct in Carnegie Hall last May (TIME, May 9). Last week was publicized a series of bigger biggest, greater greatest benefit performances. With the co-operation of National Broadcasting Co., Dr. Walter Damrosch will put on five monster concerts in Madison Square Garden...