Word: victors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verdi's melodramatic, tearfully tender Aïda. With cajolery, threats and sarcasm ("Mr. Tucker," he inquired scathingly of Tenor Richard Tucker, "do you love a woman?"), he shaped a magnificently precise and passionate performance, presented to NBC televiewers and listeners in the spring of 1949. When RCA Victor decided to cut records from the broadcast tapes, Toscanini returned from retirement in 1954 to conduct at Carnegie Hall portions of the opera which did not satisfy him-namely, Soprano Herva Nelli's O Patria Mia and Ritorna Vincitor! (TIME, June 14, 1954). Last week Victor released (on three...
...Bene!" Although Aïda is the last of the studio-recorded Toscanini music, Victor still has half a dozen unpublished recordings from rehearsals and performances approved by Toscanini during the last two years of his life and scheduled for release. They include Brahms's Double Concerto, Haydn's Toy Symphony and a Vivaldi Concerto Grosso. Toscanini's son Walter estimates that there are some 30 other approved recordings in Riverdale, among them the complete Romeo and Juliet music of Berlioz and the Second and Fourth symphonies of Sibelius. The recordings are the fruits of a plan...
...Maybe." Victor will slowly add the "approved" recordings to its already bulging list of Toscanini disks. (In 17 years of recording for Victor, Toscanini sold better than any other classical artist in history-22 million record units, $40 million in retail sales.) The tapes his father definitely rejected, says Walter Toscanini, will never be released, although they will be preserved at Riverdale as historical documents. But of the 350 hours of Toscanini tapes to work from, roughly half are in a "maybe" category: papa liked them except for minor flaws. Record buyers may eventually hear some portions of them. "Sometimes...
Crow & Cherries. The book's hero, a kind of clerical Candide, is the Abbe Victor Mas, naive young seminarist at Versailles who is sent to Rome to study and to live in the household of His Eminence, Cardinal Belloro, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The cardinal is not far from being a Renaissance figure. He does not care much for the unceremonious style of modern cardinals like New York's Spellman ("the American Pope"). He savagely attacks Pius XII, whose order curtailing the length of cardinals' trains by one half annoys...
Moreover, the book involves the young hero with temptation of the flesh, in the person of dark-haired, "cassock-crazy" Paola, niece of the cardinal's chaplain. Victor Mas has not yet taken his vows of chastity, but he struggles heroically. Finally Paola wins...