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...performance audience and players rose as one man to honor the world's greatest conductor. But Toscanini rapped quickly for attention and proceeded to make something vital and thrilling out of Bruckner's long-winded Seventh Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to cheer but the conductor plucked at the concertmaster's sleeve, his cue for the players to clear the stage. For Toscanini, who scorns the dessert of applause, the evening ended with the last mighty unison of the Bach-Respighi Prelude & Fugue...
...obscure, half-nourished piano-teacher. Until then his way had been consistently hard. His father, a baker, disowned him because he refused to be a lawyer. An uncle helped him to get into a musical conservatory. But Mascagni rebelled against the rules, struck out for himself. He toured as conductor of a fourth-rate opera company until he married the stern domineering woman who even now jealously supervises the selection of his casts...
...observed lean, natty B. B. C. Orchestra Conductor Dr. Adrian Boult in Boston last week, ''the 30 or more directors of the various departments of B. B. C. are quite intelligent people. They have quite splendid university degrees, some of them, and they get around a lot. So we really get most of our ideas from each other. We meet, the 30 of us, every day at tea time...
...Hofmann and Artur Schnabel. But Carnegie was not too big for Pianist Ruth Slenczynski last week. Three thousand New Yorkers were delighted to pay to hear a child so confident that she will attempt the weightiest music, so pert that she will suggest a different tempo to an experienced conductor like Bernardino Molinari...
...Conductor Leopold Stokowski left for California last week. After all the fracas with the Orchestra board (TIME, Dec. 24, et ante), he promised to return for three months next season as guest conductor...