Word: maestro
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Those who feared that the maestro's great days were over were soon undeceived. In August he set musical Salzburg agog with a heaven-storming performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, a glorious Falstaff, an incomparable Die Meister singer (TIME, Aug. 24). Last December he went to Tel Aviv and, with all his oldtime brilliance, led the new Palestine Symphony through its first performance (TIME, Jan. 4). All of this encouraged U. S. music lovers to hope that the maestro was not lost to them forever...
More sanguine than most, the New York Post's music critic, Samuel Chotzinoff, simply refused to believe Toscanini was through with the U. S. Chotzinoff for years has been a great friend of the maestro, is so devoted to him that many call him "Chotzinini." In Manhattan he is known for his pithy paragraphs, his skill as an accompanist, his desire to make music accessible to all. Recently Chotzinoff began to have long talks with David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Last month Critic Chotzinoff went on a mysterious "vacation," stopped in Milan at the house of his old friend...
...these rapturous radicals last week gentle, refined, soft-spoken Lev Davidovich Bronstein said, in the fatherly fashion of an old maestro soothing impatient pupils who want to play the violin before they know how, that he wants to go to New York...
...Year I modestly nominate myself. I am neither monarch, dictator, fuhrer, president or even a deposed king. Nor am I a movie star, postmaster, baseball player, maestro or champion corn husker. I am just an average American Business...
Duke Oliver, the colored maestro, is returning with his Rhythm Manor Orchestra, and the Deacons will dance from 10 o'clock until two in the Junior Common Room and the Dining Room, which will be decorated in the Yuletide spirit. An ample supply of mistletoe is being laid in, and a midnight supper is planned for the intermission...