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...custom at the Turin Royal Theater to keep the electric lights burning in the house so that the audience could follow their scores and see to eat their box lunches. But for the first performance of La Bohème, young (28), bristle-haired Conductor Arturo Toscanini ordered the house lights turned out. Further, he instructed his Mimi (Soprano Cesira Ferrani) to stay in character once she started to succumb to consumption in Rodolfo's drafty garret in Act IV; there would be no rolling around in the creaky bed for encores...
This time the world's greatest conductor, of opera or anything else, put on a Bohème without costumes or scenery, and with no box lunches in the studio audience. He lined up his cast of soloists (mostly Met stars) before the mikes like an old-fashioned singing class, so that he could keep a sharp eye and a firm baton on them. Tenor Jan Peerce, in the first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit...
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A great conductor recording first-rate music (which he has not always done recently). The result is a dazzling torrent of melody. Performance: excellent...
Szell's appointment put Cleveland's regular conductor, Erich Leinsdorf, 33, out of a job. Leinsdorf succeeded Artur Rodzinski who bossed the Cleveland for ten years, then graduated to the New York Philharmonic. Last week Rodzinski's three-year contract with the Philharmonic was up. He had improved its sloppy ways, but he was no Toscanini. The Philharmonic re-signed him for one year...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...