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Stokowski had little more success in his co-conductorships. His tenure with the NBC Symphony ended after two years because the joint director, Arturo Toscanini, felt that Stokowski's musical ideas were too divergent from his own to make a joint directorship possible. Toscanini, the purist, had only a mite of sympathy for Stokowski's revolutionary ideas about adjusting acoustics and reseating orchestras. The problems were almost exactly duplicated and Stokowski ousted exactly seven years later, when he was hired to co-direct the New York Philharmonic with Dmitri Mitropoulos. The flamboyant Stokowski, whose glamorous life was already shrouded...
...Toscanini heard her sing and told her, "A voice like yours is heard only once in a hundred years...
...Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers execute historical documents, with technical accuracy and precision but little sincerity. Today the opera houses of the world abound with what Toscanini called "musica inutile"--useless music, music that flirts with our emotional sensibilities rather than attacking them...
...orthodox conductors, interested in Brahms' Brahms rather than their Brahms. Yet how different these interpretations are. Böhm almost seems schizoid about these essentially well-adjusted symphonies, as though he could not make up his mind whether the dreamy, expansive Furtwängler or the lean, surging Toscanini were right. No such problems with Haitink. His Brahms bristles with muscle and the knowledge of a certain destination...
WORKS BY SCHUBERT, MENDELSSOHN, BERLIOZ, TCHAIKOVSKY, DEBUSSY, RESPIGHI AND STRAUSS (Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; RCA, 5 LPs). The first complete release of a series of recordings made in 1941-42 finds the conductor producing spacious, clear-textured virtuoso performances...