Toscanini

[tos-kuh-nee-nee, taws-kah-nee-nee]

noun

1. Arturo 1867–1957, Italian orchestra conductor, in the U.S. after 1928.

Toscanini

/ ˌtɒskəˈniːnɪ /

noun

1. 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

As the end of his term approached, Van Zweden spoke in his office filled with photographs of four of his famous New York Philharmonic predecessors: Gustav Mahler, Willem Mengelberg, Arturo Toscanini and Leonard Bernstein.

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“He said to me: `You are not a Toscanini, but you have a great future,‘” she recalled, a reference to conducting great Arturo Toscanini.

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Famed conductor Arturo Toscanini refused to play the fascist party anthem in the theater or elsewhere, earning him a beating from Mussolini’s Blackshirts.

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That was just one of many suggestions that Dudamel, 42, would, before too long, join the ranks of New York music directors, a group that has included eminences like Mahler, Toscanini, Bernstein and Boulez.

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As Dudamel looked on, she scrolled through a digital display of the Philharmonic’s past music directors — Toscanini, Mahler, Pierre Boulez, Bernstein — comparing the length of their tenures.

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