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...climax of his winter conducting season, Arturo Toscanini picked Beethoven's soaring Missa Solemnis. Following his baton in Carnegie Hall last week were Basso Jerome Hines, Tenor Eugene Conley, and Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman as soloists, the members of the NBC Symphony and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Amidst this phalanx of well-known U.S. artists was one soloist few Americans had ever so much as heard of: a 28-year-old Toronto soprano named Lois Marshall. From now on, listeners are going to hear a lot more...
...performance that even Toscanini has rarely equaled for fire and devotion, there was no single standout. But Marshall's soprano, as the highest solo voice, could be heard floating magnificently above even the massed ensemble. In the more subdued sections of Beethoven's Mass, her tone was pure and wellrounded, her florid passages had a liquid sound and her phrasing a natural warmth that her colleagues, for all their greater experience, never quite matched...
...Symphony (Sat. 5:45 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Singers Lois Marshall, Nan Merriman, Eugene Conley, Jerome Hines...
...Arturo Toscanini...
Even more impressive than the number of patients who daily crowd Achille d'Angelo's waiting room in Rome are the names of some of the privileged ones who come by special appointment. For a bad left knee, Arturo Toscanini took ten treatments last summer from D'Angelo, self-styled Mago di Napoli (Wizard of Naples), and pronounced the man formidabile. Tenor Beniamino Gigli went in to be lifted from his nervous depression. Italy's Queen Maria José once sought D'Angelo's aid for her "weakened optic nerves...