Word: toscaninis
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...cerise plush Studio 8-H (now being converted into a TV theater) into Carnegie Hall. He had not objected too much: Carnegie is acoustically superior to Studio 8-H. But then NBC suggested a further move, to the unfamiliar Manhattan Center Studio. A final crowning blow to Toscanini, the story went, was the decision to shift his time to 10 o'clock (E.S.T.) Monday nights. When he learned that the NBC Symphony was to follow in an "evening of great music" such musically mongrelized but star-studded programs as the Telephone Hour, Toscanini, said Variety, "had all he could...
...announcement from NBC stated simply that "the return of Arturo Toscanini to the podium . . . has been postponed by the maestro." A year ago he had slipped in his bathtub and hurt his knee; this season, said the announcement, there had been a recurrence of the ailment. Fritz Reiner would conduct the first three concerts, beginning this week, and Toscanini's plans for the new season would be announced "at a later date...
Last week the trade was rocking with a different story. What was really keeping 83-year-old Arturo Toscanini from the podium was not the ailing knee, blared Variety in Page One headlines, but a "shove-around...
...Metropolitan was also worried about one of its star sopranos, Ljuba Welitch. She probably joined the German Labor Front, observed Director Rudolf Bing sadly. "You either joined or you didn't sing," he explained. Arturo Toscanini was waved in though technically he too was suspicious: during Il Duce's regime, he had led an Italian orchestra, once ran for the Italian Senate with Mussolini on the Socialist ticket in 1919. Obviously the Attorney General felt he could make an exception of Toscanini...
Calling at the White House, Duke Ellington presented Fellow Pianist Harry Truman with the latest Ellington score, Portrait of New York (commissioned by Arturo Toscanini, to be played Christmas night in Carnegie Hall...