Toscanini, Arturo

Cultural  

1. A celebrated Italian conductor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He spent much of his career in the United States. In his later years, he conducted the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Symphony Orchestra, which was organized for him.

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Example Sentences

The sisters, who are twins, said their great-grandmother — who met Callas in 1951 at a dinner organized by Wally Toscanini, Arturo Toscanini’s daughter — would prepare the diva’s luggage for overseas trips, accompanied by meticulous notes detailing the coordination of each ensemble to protect her protégée from a sartorial faux pas.

From New York Times

Some 1,500 fans formed a grim, silent queue for tickets, which were so scarce that even Walter Toscanini, Arturo's boy and Horowitz's own brother-in-law, had to stand in line for three hours.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tchekhov, 303 Tempest, Marie, 219, 252, 301 Temps, Le, 18 Terence, 302 Terry, Ellen, 301 Tetrazzini, Luisa, 102, 160 Thèbes, Mme. de, 79 Thomas, Ambroise, 173 Thomas, Augustus, 235, 236, 295 Thomas, Olive, 223 Thomas, Theodore, 155 Tiberius, 69 Tichatschek, Joseph Aloys, 164 Tilzer, Harry von, 202 Tinney, Frank, 222 Tissot, 67 Toscanini, Arturo, 156 Tradition, 24, 97, 281 Troubetskoy, Prince, 157 Tschaikovsky, 59, 312 Turgeniev, 187, 252 Twain, Mark, 261, 265 Urban, Joseph, 222, 223 Vagaries of genius, 55 Vallière, Louise, de la, 13 Valverde, Joaquín, 284 et seq.

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