Word: toscaninis
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...best, simply transplanted it for the festival season, and booked only two big outside stars: the Metropolitan Opera's Baritone George London (a commanding Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro) and Tenor Ramon Vinay (in Otello). Salzburg's musical stalwarts of other years (Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini) were absent. But the hall was fuller than ever and Salzburg had its most profitable season since...
Summer Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini conducting a program of semiclassical works...
...Arturo Toscanini, 85, had his summer all mapped out, and the map called for a long rest in Italy. A methodical man, Conductor Toscanini settled down to it three months ago : he spent most of his time in his beloved Milan, varying his routine with short visits to his villa on cool Lake Maggiore. Last week - summer plans drastically revised- Toscanini was back in Manhattan and at work...
...Toscanini offered no explanation, but Samuel Chotzinoff, NBC's musical director and the Maestro's longtime friend, made an authoritative guess: "Frankly, I think he was bored. Most of his old friends in Italy are dead now. And he missed TV; he loves to watch prizefights and all the shows and concerts. It's just a more peppy life here. Then, I think he sort of missed the amenities of living in America. Over there, things are apt to go wrong. Here, everything works smoothly- the phones and the radio and everything . . . But most...
...some respects his assignment might frighten even Toscanini, for just as an orchestra is trained to perfection, one of its talented, members will suddenly introduce a new instrument-a longer, more versatile catheter, an artificial kidney, a triumph of chemotherapy . . . The professor . . . must . . . integrate it with the rest of the orchestra. Judging from my own brief experience in this exacting role, I wonder if the average professor of medicine today ever really knows the score...