Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shone warmly on the coral beaches. At night, the cool trade wind whispered through the palm trees. Harry Truman loafed. In the shaded seclusion of Key West's submarine base, surrounded by his loyal lieutenants and faithful friends, the victor rested after the battle. It was a fine feeling...
...whipping it for all it was worth, the audience couldn't get to its feet fast enough. The passion and power he found in César Franck's over-explored symphony won him another wild ovation before intermission. And by the time his program was over, Victor de Sabata had Pittsburgh in his pocket. After the pounding, accelerating bombardment of Bolero, there was a full minute of silence, as the audience pulled itself together. Then came the cheers. Next morning the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the concert on Page One; the afternoon Sun-Telegraph and Press gave...
...angry resignation (TIME, March 8), Pittsburgh's Symphony Society had been borrowing any top conductors it could lay hands on to lead the orchestra, if only for a few concerts. There was one man in particular they wanted, and last week, when La Scala Milan's famed Victor de Sabata appeared for the first of four guest spots, Pittsburgh decided that a few brassy fanfares were called for. All of Manhattan's first-string critics were invited, and they accepted...
...Shoes. Conductor de Sabata had been heard in the U.S. only once before, 21 years ago in Cincinnati. A friend of his in Milan, Arturo Toscanini, had urged him to go to Cincinnati, and when De Sabata got back to Milan, Toscanini had prepared another job for him. Victor de Sabata has been filling Toscanini's shoes at La Scala ever since. Some Italian critics, in fact, rate him above Toscanini as a conductor, an excess of praise which De Sabata doesn't seek. He still refers to Toscanini as "Maestro" and means it literally. He was pleased...
Composer in the Wings. The first music Victor de Sabata ever conducted was a composition of his own, at the Milan Conservatory-at the age of twelve. Six years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour in 1920-1, he played De Sabata's symphonic poem Juventus on every program. Now better known as conductor than composer, De Sabata insists with a smile that his is "a beastly profession." He swears he would rather have his two children, Elios, 17, and Eliana, 13, be "thieves...