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CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "This Was Toscanini." Photographs of the conductor rehearsing, excerpts from his recorded music, and reminiscences by a member of his orchestra commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Maestro's birth...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Toscanini: the Maestro Revisited" commemorates the 100th birthday anniversary of Arturo Toscanini with excerpts from symphony telecasts, home movies and comments on his approach to his art by Conductors George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, Erich Leinsdorf and Milton Katims. Harold Schonberg narrates...
...years on radio and TV, the Bell Telephone Hour played duenna to the world's best music and most of its best contemporary performers, from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi. The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull. Producer Henry Jaffe recalls: "We'd put a performer on a bleak stage in front of a dirty curtain and say, 'Perform!' " Perform they did, often superbly, but Bell began to feel its image had become...
Born in Russia, he was concertmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic before coming to the U.S. in 1922, held down the first chair in Philadelphia and Chicago, won the label "Toscanini's third hand" during the 15 years he played under the great Italian at the NBC Symphony. He moved to Detroit in 1952, where he helped rebuild the orchestra from scratch. A patriarch in baggy pants and sports shirts, Mischakoff is a demanding but amicable leader, prides himself on his collection of shredded manuscripts and broken batons cast aside by the terrible-tempered Toscanini...
...been so successful despite these drawbacks is due chiefly to Zvi Haftel, 54, concertmaster and chief wheedler-needier. Haftel was among the original 72 musicians, including 20 concertmasters and first-desk players, recruited in 1935 from the best European ensembles by Violinist Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the orchestra. Toscanini, as a snub to Hitler, conducted the debut performance of the refugee orchestra in 1936. But the orchestra foundered under Huberman until 1946, when Haftel, leading a musicians' mutiny, took over...