Word: toscaninis
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini directs an all-Debussy program...
Guido Cantelli is a young man in no hurry, but he is going places fast. Ever since, at 28, he first led the NBC Symphony as a hand-picked substitute for Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). Milan's Cantelli has been persuading audience after audience that his may be the richest new conducting talent in a decade or more...
...always travels with him. They have an apartment in Milan and, when possible, go to the mountains in summer. But he does not expect to have a vacation until 1954. He will take the Boston Symphony into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this week. Then comes a stint with Toscanini's NBC Symphony, followed by four weeks with Dimitri Mitropoulos' New York Philharmonic-Symphony. On his spring & summer conducting schedule: London and Salzburg...
Stumpy and stubborn, with a pompadour of snowy hair and the operatic manner of a political Toscanini, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (1917-19), stamped out of the Versailles Conference because the "other three" would not give him the port of Fiume. Clemenceau dubbed him "The Weeper," and Orlando himself recalled proudly: "When ... I knew they would not give us what we were entitled to ... I writhed on the floor. I knocked my head against the wall. I cried. I wanted...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Act II of Orpheus and Eurydice, with Nan Merriman and Barbara Gibson...