Toscanini

[ tos-kuh-nee-nee; Italian taws-kah-nee-nee ]

noun

1. Ar·tu·ro [ahr-, toor, -oh, ah, r, -, too, -, r, aw], 1867–1957, Italian orchestra conductor, in the U.S. after 1928.

Toscanini

/ ˌtɒskəˈniːnɪ /

noun

1. ToscaniniArturo18671957MItalianMUSIC: conductor Arturo (arˈtuːro). 1867–1957, Italian conductor; musical director of La Scala, Milan, and of the NBC symphony orchestra (1937–57) in New York

Example Sentences

Mr. Toscanini does not eat before a performance, and his family wait with the evening meal until he joins them.

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Mr. Toscanini wanted a nip of brandy, but the innkeeper insisted that he try some very special wine of the house's own making.

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Those who know Mr. Toscanini intimately find in those six simple words the key to his character.

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Since 1926 he and Mrs. Toscanini have occupied an apartment in the Astor—the same suite of four smallish rooms.

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Mr. Toscanini had been right about the Beethoven Concerto and had correctly remembered the purely orchestral numbers as well.

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