Arturo Toscanini in the 1944 film Hymn of the Nations Harvey Sachs wrote his first biography of Arturo Toscanini in 1978. Nearly 40 years later, he's published a completely new book about the ...

Music and politics were close to Arturo Toscanini’s heart, and he is a perfect example of artists and musicians who fight back against injustice and dictatorships. The most famous musician of the 20th ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his black high-collared rehearsal coat, Arturo Toscanini walked into NBC’s Manhattan Studio 8-H and launched a Robert Shaw-trained chorus and a handful of soloists into the music he loved: Verdi’s ...

I’ve just been listening to Arturo Toscanini conducting Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” (“A Masked Ball”), the conductor’s last complete opera performance, recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1954. Harvey ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This program is from a concert by ...

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 ...

Whatever Leopold Stokowski’s thirst for celebrity, he was not known for caving to audience pressure.