Word: toscaninis
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Maestro Arturo Toscanini, pushing 83, was getting ready for a bit of traveling. Twenty days after his birthday next month, he plans to take the NBC Symphony on a six-week tour, conduct 21 concerts from New York to California...
...most of that time it has been one of the world's greatest opera houses. Its audiences had heard premieres of the operas of Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini. The greatest singers-Patti, Melba, Caruso, Chaliapin, Gigli-all graced its stage. From 1921 to 1929, under Arturo Toscanini, La Scala seemed to have reached a golden plateau. But last week even the proudest Milanese were admitting that something was very wrong with their great opera house...
...TIME called the Boston symphony-except for Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony-"the U.S.'s finest and one of the top four in the world. The others: Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic...
...version of LP. More important to record buyers, Victor will dip into its library and reissue on LP such of its old masters as "can be rerecorded without loss of quality and tonal fidelity." That will include most of the great records made in the last decade by Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Marian Anderson, John Charles Thomas, many another star in a catalogue of classical music without parallel in the record industry...
...second oldest symphonic organization, and Conductor Munch was a descendant of a distinguished line of "permanent" conductors. Founder Higginson believed that "the essential condition for a great orchestra is stability." Over 68 years, only nine men had shaped and polished the Boston Symphony until it was-except for Arturo Toscanini's virtuoso radio orchestra, the NBC Symphony, which is in a class by itself-the U.S.'s finest and one of the top four in the world...