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This, however, is unlikely to satisfy either Marvin or Powers. Powers' complaints are based on the way this year's elections have been handled. "I think that the professionals in the overseers play the election the way Toscanini plays an orchestra," he said yesterday. "They have several techniques for fooling with...
...best thing a musician can possibly do after he has acquired a great deal of experience," says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, "is to pass it on to younger musicians. So many people are now gone-Kreisler, Toscanini, Rachmaninoff-who never had students. This is a great loss." It is also a sad fact that few celebrated performers have much interest in teaching-and fewer still have any talent for it (Rachmaninoff, for example, was a dour, retiring man, hardly cut out to be the Mr. Chips of the keyboard). Fortunately for a few lucky cellists, however, Piatigorsky, 61, has both...
...marries Wanda, daughter of Arturo Toscanini. Father-and sonin-law perform together. Their concerts are sellouts, their records collectors' items. Money, fame, esteem-everything comes quickly to Horowitz-except English. At the White House, when he is presented to Mrs. Hoover, he bows and says, "I am delightful...
When it comes to getting the best out of his stable, Donnie is a regular Toscanini. If he wants a song changed and is told "we didn't do it that way at Juilliard," he replies gently: "I know you're right artistically, but, unfortunately, this is the way it will sell." He may suggest a less complicated "story line," or a different twist to the melody, or a switch in rhythm. He also knows how to boost a youngster's ego. Composer Tommy Boyce, 22, and Lyricist Bobby Hart, 23, came in from Hollywood last week...
...listener is always guaranteed a few nervous thrills; but Friday's performance offered far more. Munch focused the overextended first movement into several overwhelming climaxes, emphasized its contrasts, and even created, amazingly, a genuine air of tragedy. While totally different in approach, this interpretation equalled in impact the famous Toscanini broadcast recording. The final movement seemed somewhat less successful, probably due less to Munch's varied tempo than to the limitations of the hall's Skinner organ, which lacks clarity and brilliance...