Others were taped in New York City at NBC's Studio 8H ( built for Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra and which would later house Saturday Night Live ), and in NBC's studio in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

Puccini, however, seems to have had some inkling of the possible seriousness of his condition since, before leaving for Brussels, he visited Toscanini and begged him, " Don't let my Turandot die.

Vladimir Horowitz developed a special fondness for Clementi's work after his wife, Wanda Toscanini, bought him Clementi's complete works.

One of the most notable of all classical music radio programs of the Golden Age of Radio featured the celebrated Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra, which had been created especially for him.

He and the composer Virgil Thomson, continually wrote disparagingly about Barbirolli, comparing him unfavourably with Toscanini.

The composer was also impressed when Toscanini consulted him personally about the Te Deum, suggesting an allargando where it was not set out in the score.

Toscanini returned to the United States where the NBC Symphony Orchestra was created for him in 1937.

Toscanini worked with many great singers and musicians throughout his career, but few impressed him as much as Vladimir Horowitz.

Sachs wrote that an Italian journalist, Raffaele Calzini, said Toscanini told him, " My son Walter sent me the test pressing of the Ninth from America ; I want to hear and check how it came out, and possibly to correct it.

These critics contend that Toscanini was ultimately a detriment to American music rather than an asset because of the tremendous marketing of him by RCA as the greatest conductor of all time and his preference to perform mostly older European music.

Conversely, Joseph Horowitz contends that those who keep the Toscanini legend alive are members of a " Toscanini cult ", an idea not altogether refuted by Frank, but not embraced by him, either.

On fidelity to composers ' scores, Monteux's biographer John Canarina ranks him with Klemperer and above even Toscanini, whose reputation for strict adherence to the score was, in Canarina's view, less justified than Monteux's.

According to one story, Arturo Toscanini heard Sharkey in New York, then hired him to come to a rehearsal of the New York Philharmonic to play a couple of numbers unaccompanied for the orchestra to listen to.

Gatti-Casazza brought with him Arturo Toscanini, the fiery and brilliant conductor who had led La Scala during Gatti's years there as manager.

Ironically, Hitler attended performances that included Jewish and foreign singers, long after they had been banned from all other venues across Germany ( including heldentenor, Max Lorenz, married to a well-known Jewish woman ) Winifred's influence with Hitler was so strong that Hitler even wrote a letter ( at her behest ) to anti-fascist Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, begging him to lead the festival.

Years later, when Toscanini visited the MGM lot in California, Eddy greeted him by singing a few bars of Maria Egiziaca.

He wrote to Arturo Toscanini, the former musical director of La Scala, who left Italy in 1933, explaining his plight, and Toscanini responded by promising to sponsor him as an immigrant in the United States.

While singing at bar mitzvahs and weddings and Borscht Belt resorts, he met an agent, Moe Gale, who found him work at Radio City Music Hall and with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

Knowing that Thomson frequently gave her father negative reviews, she approached him and announced, “ I am Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, and I saw you sleep from the first note to the last.

During these early years with the Met he developed a lasting friendship with Arturo Toscanini, who later hired him to conduct his NBC Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions when he himself was un-available.

So delighted was Toscanini with Steinberg's preliminary groundwork for his concerts that he chose him as an assistant in preparing for the NBC Symphony Orchestra radio broadcasts.

In 1942, Arturo Toscanini invited him for a performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was a resounding success and made him a household name.

In 1980, it was used by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of special televised NBC concerts called " Live From Studio 8H ", the first one being a tribute to Toscanini, punctuated by clips from his television concerts.

* Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4 " Italian ", ( 1954, exists in two versions: one as approved by Toscanini with excerpts from the rehearsals, and the unedited broadcast )

While online critics such as Peter Gutmann have dismissed much of what was written about Toscanini during his lifetime as " adoring puffery ", it neverthleless remains a fact that composers and others who worked with the Maestro readily acknowledged what they felt was his greatness, and audio interviews containing the praise of such luminaries as Aaron Copland still exist.

His most recent job for television has been co-authoring ( with director Larry Weinstein ) the Ideale-Audience production, " Toscanini in His Own Words ", was shown by BBC, Arte, and other major networks worldwide in 2009.

The symphony, which was later known as the " Dollar Symphony ", was recorded by Sir Thomas Beecham that year, and later by Arturo Toscanini in 1943, during an NBC Symphony Orchestra broadcast concert ; a performance which Atterberg praised on hearing the recorded broadcast.

NBC musical director Samuel Chotzinoff, in his 1956 book " Toscanini -- An Intimate Portrait ", said that every time the Maestro proposed scheduling Martucci's works, certain orchestra members and NBC authorities objected ; but the conductor was not to be deterred.

* March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert ( i. e. no scenery or costumes ), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center.

This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.

** Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a concert featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

* December 6 – With the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he claims is his favorite Beethoven symphony, Eroica, for the last time.

At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.

The first performance of the opera as completed by Alfano was the following night, 26 April, although it is disputed whether this was conducted by Toscanini again or by Ettore Panizza.

Of this version, about three minutes were cut for performance by Toscanini, and it is this shortened version that is usually performed.

The theatre is bounded by the wide 9 de Julio Avenue ( technically Cerrito Street ), Libertad Street ( the main entrance ), Arturo Toscanini Street, and Tucumán Street.

His name is a reference to famed conductor Arturo Toscanini, though the resemblance ends there.

Toscanini: The Maestro is a 1985 documentary made for cable television.

Toscanini is the subject of the 1988 fictionalized biography Il giovane Toscanini ( Young Toscanini ), starring C. Thomas Howell and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, and directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

The film is a fictional recounting of the events that led up to Toscanini making his conducting debut in Rio de Janeiro in 1886.

However, it is widely believed that Toscanini favored it because its close miking enabled listeners to hear every instrumental strand in the orchestra clearly, something that the conductor strongly believed in.

Chapter 13 is devoted to Toscanini ; includes discography.

According to Pardo, his announcing booth in Studio 8-H, from which Saturday Night Live is telecast, is almost exactly where Arturo Toscanini stood when conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Rockefeller Center from 1937 to 1950.

His recording of the role with Toscanini is a perennial classic.

#[...] it is not his conclusion that is performed in productions of Turandot but only what the premiere conductor Arturo Toscanini included from it ... Puccini had worked for nine months on the following concluding duet and at his death had left behind a whole ream of sketches ... Alfano had to reconstruct ... according to his best assessment ... and with his imagination and magnifying glass " since Puccini's material " had not really been legible.

It is disputed whether the first performance in Europe was conducted by Toscanini or Henry Wood.

The theatre is closely associated with the composer Verdi ( who lived in nearby Busseto ) and conductor Arturo Toscanini, who was born in Parma.