MILAN (AP) — Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini’s legacies included abolishing encores at La Scala. So it was a playful touch when one of the maestro’s musical heirs included a Verdi encore during a ...
Arturo Toscanini, the great Italian conductor, died 50 years ago this month. In commemoration, the Rome-based Symphonica Toscanini is touring the U.S. with a program of works closely identified with ...
Arturo Toscanini, one of the foremost orchestra conductors in the world, died yesterday at the age of 89. Death came at his home in Riverdale, the Bronx, at 8:40 a.m. He had been suffering from the ...
A timely break and a prodigious memory launched the career of Arturo Toscanini, honored March 25 with a 25-cent U. S. commemorative in the Performing Arts Series. The stamp bears a portrait of the ...
Page is a professor of music and journalism at USC. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997 while with the Washington Post. It is always illuminating to immerse oneself every now and again in ...
Arturo Toscanini remembers anniversaries. Last week, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brahms’s death, he led his NBC Symphony Orchestra through an all-Brahms program. It was played with such ...
Erika Kirk Takes On the Podcast Conspiracy-Mongers with Grace Audio By Carbonatix Editor’s Note: In the August 14 issue of National Review, we had a review by Jay Nordlinger of Harvey Sachs’s ...
The U.S. opera season gets off to a fortissimo start in San Francisco this week. The opening Lohengrin will star a new Swedish tenor named Set Svanholm and the Metropolitan Opera’s Astrid Varnay. In ...