Word: toscaninis
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...Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 2. Lily Pons and Ferruccio Tagliavini. 3. Eduard Werner and the Detroit Scandinavian Orchestra. 4. Rudolf Bing and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. 5. Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra...
...every audience-measuring system known to radio, Jack Benny has long attracted many millions more listeners than Arturo Toscanini and his NBC Symphony. But box-office receipts in Cleveland's Public Auditorium tell a different story. Toscanini, stopping off on his U.S. tour, grossed $29,000 and played to an audience of 9,500. A week later in the same auditorium, Jack Benny's traveling show grossed a mere $11,000 from an audience...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Toscanini's music seems to grow leaner with the years. In this new performance, he has scalpeled away pounds of the bombast with which the "Eroica" is too often fattened out; what remains is clear, bone-clean, but still well-muscled. Recording: excellent...
...River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well, a little, but it was good...
This week, as he headed back east, Arturo Toscanini's only regret seemed to be that he didn't have time for more...