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Musician of the Year was Arturo Toscanini. In three of the world's great musical capitals- Manhattan, Pans and Salzburg-Conductor Toscanini was the sensation of the season, establishing beyond all dispute his title as music's greatest box-office attraction...
Enrico Caruso was the tenor, Arturo Toscanini the conductor on that November night in 1908 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza mounted his first performance as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera was A'ida, chosen by Gatti out of reverence for his friend and hero, Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Lately Gatti has been accused of being old-fashioned and reactionary. But last week as he began his farewell season at the Metropolitan, the sphinxy Gatti behaved as if he had never heard the carping. Again for the opening night he chose...
...blackface but everyone recognized him by the power in his voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last B flat until the gallery was almost beside itself. To crown the performance Gatti had a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, onetime conductor of the Scala in Milan. Conductor Panizza is a lean, sparse-haired man who wears pincenez and a measly mustache. But he quickly proved himself a sure-fire opera leader, made the tunes so fetching that even the boxholders were hard...
First-nighters thought Gatti might break his rule last week, take a curtain call with the singers and the new conductor. But Gatti took his first and last bow from the Metropolitan stage in 1908, standing proudly between his friends Toscanini and Caruso...
...posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic. He left in a rage of resentment because the Government had banned the music of long-dead Jew Mendelssohn, had tabooed the works of Composer Paul Hindemith. Head music man in Vienna is Conductor Clemens Krauss, who last week accepted Herr Furtwangler's job with the Berlin State Opera. In exchange Vienna wanted Furtwangler but the German conductor excused himself on the grounds of ill-health and exhaustion. The real reason seemed to be that Germany had refused him permission to leave the Reich...