1937 Arturo Toscanini Oxford University charity concert Beethoven BBC programme

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1937 Arturo Toscanini Oxford University charity concert Beethoven BBC programme 1937 Arturo Toscanini Oxford University charity concert Beethoven BBC programme Original printed programme for an afternoon concert 'Given by Maestro Toscanini as a gesture of goodwill to the University of Oxford . The proceeds of the concert will be devoted to the Oxford University Appeal Fund. At Maestro Toscanini's wish the British Broadcasting Corporation has most kindly placed the BBC Symphony Orchestra at his disposal' New Theatre, Oxford 'An Orchestral Concert given by Arturo Toscanini to the University of Oxford' Tuesday Evening, 8 June 1937 3pmRossini Overture, L'Italiana in Algeri Beethoven Symphony No. 6, in F (Pastoral) (Op. 68) Brahms Symphony No. 1, in C minor (Op. 68) BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Paul Beard Arturo Toscanini conductor Full page photo of Toscanini ; full list of orchestral players, including Aubrey Brain, horn, Archie Camden, bassoon, Frederick Thurston, clarinet Includes a looseleaf card requesting the audience to refrain from smoking8½" x 5½" (21.5cm x 14cm), 12 pages + covers Condition : Very good, but with some ageing & handling wear - faint foxing/spotting to covers, light crease to corners upper right where they have been turned over, bump to spine. A very nice copy of a rare and historic item I will package carefully and am happy to post worldwide : UK £1.25, Europe £2.50, Worldwide £4 (Postage combined and reduced for multiple purchases posted together) Please see also my other classical concert & opera programmes program programm programmes programmheft From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory. He is especially regarded as an authoritative interpreter of the works of Verdi, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner. As music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra he became a household name through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.Toscanini was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, and won a scholarship to the local music conservatory, where he studied the cello. He joined the orchestra of an opera company, with which he toured South America in 1886. While presenting Aida in Rio de Janeiro, the orchestra's conductor was booed by the audience and forced to leave the podium. Although he had no conducting experience, Toscanini was persuaded to take up the baton, and led a highly acclaimed performance of the two-and-a-half hour opera completely from memory. Thus began his career as a conductor at age 19.Upon returning to Italy, Toscanini returned to his chair in the cello section, and participated as cellist in the world premiere of Verdi's Otello (La Scala, Milan, 1887) under the composer's supervision. Verdi, who habitually complained that conductors never seemed interested in directing his scores the way he had written them, was impressed by reports from Arrigo Boito about Toscanini's ability to interpret his scores. The composer was also impressed when Toscanini consulted him personally, indicating an allargando where it was not set out in the score; Verdi said that he had left it out for fear that "certain interpreters would have exaggerated the marking". Gradually the young musician's reputation as an operatic conductor of unusual authority and skill supplanted his cello career. In the following decade he consolidated his career in Italy, entrusted with the world premieres of Puccini's La bohème and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. In 1896, Toscanini conducted his first symphonic concert (in Turin, with works by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner). By 1898 he was resident conductor at La Scala, and he remained there until 1908, returning during the 1920s. He took th... read more

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