Word: toscaninis
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...wears earplugs to keep the volume down. Usually Horowitz watches the action from the sidelines, but birthdays are something else. "That was my first gift for my birthday, to be able to dance like that," he gloated, after stomping away with Wife Wanda. "As my father-in-law Arturo Toscanini used to say," he recalled, " 'You can't be serious 24 hours a day. You have to take half an hour or an hour a day to be childish...
...nation's best; in Manhattan. As a Jew, Steinberg was forced to leave his post as music director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents...
...tunes, watching Toscanini conduct, she recalls wondering, "How would it feel to wave that little stick around...
...much by his personality as by his musicianship. He insists that his players call him Slava, not maestro. He refuses to place himself on a pedestal higher than the podium. Herbert von Karajan once broke up a rehearsal when he spied a musician chewing gum. Szell was a tyrant. Toscanini's men loved him, yet trembled before his baton-snapping temper. "Sometimes," says Rostropovich in his near-impenetrable English, "conductor says to orchestra, 'You play for me and my ego!' No. Orchestra must not think conductor is god. Some day he is running quick to bathroom, then orchestra says, 'There...
...taste but his own. In the 1920s and 1930s, by which time he had turned the once provincial Philadelphia Orchestra into one of the world's great ensembles, he had a more progressive view of contemporary music than either of his two main rivals-Arturo Toscanini in New York and Serge Koussevitsky of the Boston Symphony. He gave the American premieres of both Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Berg's Wozzeck. He was constantly concerned with helping young musicians. That was why, at age 80, he helped to found the American Symphony Orchestra...