Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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First the maestro had been moved out of NBC's big, cerise plush Studio 8-H (now being converted into a TV theater) into Carnegie Hall. He had not objected too much: Carnegie is acoustically superior to Studio 8-H. But then NBC suggested a further move, to the unfamiliar Manhattan Center Studio. A final crowning blow to Toscanini, the story went, was the decision to shift his time to 10 o'clock (E.S.T.) Monday nights. When he learned that the NBC Symphony was to follow in an "evening of great music" such musically mongrelized but star-studded...
...announcement from NBC stated simply that "the return of Arturo Toscanini to the podium . . . has been postponed by the maestro." A year ago he had slipped in his bathtub and hurt his knee; this season, said the announcement, there had been a recurrence of the ailment. Fritz Reiner would conduct the first three concerts, beginning this week, and Toscanini's plans for the new season would be announced "at a later date...
Signed last May by San Francisco Opera Maestro Gaetano Merola after one hearing in Florence, Soprano Tebaldi flew to San Francisco without pausing in Manhattan, planned to return to Italy after the Los Angeles season. There was just a possibility the Met might still catch up with her. Met Manager Rudolf Bing, with a reservation for another performance of Aïda, is due in San Francisco late this week...
Last week, bald, stocky Maestro Kostelanetz and wife, Met Coloratura Lily Pons, were returning to the U.S. from a European vacation. With guest-conducting, a full fall recording schedule and an estimated $100,000 annual royalties to look forward to, the mix master felt well content. "I am fortunate," he said, "to have lived at a time when radio and records have made it possible for more people to hear more music than has been heard since the beginning of time...
...Born. To Maestro Leopold Stokowski, 68, and Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 26, his third wife (he is her second husband): their first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Weight...