A new and expanded edition of a book first published 58 years ago about a man said to have been the world’s greatest conductor shows why the myth took hold and why it remains unchallenged. Arturo ...
With Toscanini, you got such a sharp, delineating beat, you knew exactly what he was looking for. He would go after the key points he wanted, get it cleared up, and then he would conduct from ...
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 ...
For Toscanini (1867-1957), pursuing perfection was a matter of conscience. Here was the right way, the only way, of being a musician; any other was simply wrong. In this brilliant biography, Harvey ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the marble bust of Arturo Toscanini is shown at La Scala opera theater during 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 ...
ROME — Concerts, exhibitions and movie showings are among the events planned worldwide to remember Arturo Toscanini, 50 years after the death of the celebrated Italian conductor. Commemorations will ...
Toscanini. By Harvey Sachs. W.W. Norton; 944 pages; $39.95. To be published in Britain in July; £29.99. ASK music-lovers to name a conductor, and among the greats they are likely to mention Arturo ...
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