[ARSCLIST] Toscanini presentation by Seth B. Winner at NYPL (fwd)

[Bob Kosovsky <kos@xxxxxxxxx>]

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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents

ARTURO TOSCANINI:  HOMAGE TO THE MAESTRO

Seth B. Winner, sound engineer of the Toscanini Legacy since 1988, presents 
rare and unique audio selections from the collection, housed in the Library's 
Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 6 PM
This program will highlight rehearsals, broadcast and non-broadcast concerts 
from the incomparable Toscanini Legacy Collection, digitally restored for this 
presentation.  Excerpts will include portions of:

* Beethoven:  Symphony no. 4, 3rd movement -
    - Rehearsal - La Scala Orchestra, October 1926
* Bruckner:  Symphony no. 7, 3rd movement -
    - New York Philharmonic, January 27, 1935
* Wagner:  Goetterdaemmerung, Siegfried's Funeral Music
    - New York Philharmonic, April 21, 1935
* Ravel:  Daphnis et Chloe, Suite no. 2: Dance generale
    - New York Philharmonic, March 29, 1936
* Beethoven:  Syphony no. 9, 2nd movement
    - NBC Symphony Orchestra, February 6, 1938
* Mozart:  Symphony no. 38, K. 504, 3rd movement
    - NBC Symphony Orchestra, February 4, 1938
* Debussy:  Danse (arr. by Ravel)
    - Rehearsal - NBC Symphony Orchestra, April 10, 1940
* Debussy:  Marche eccossaise
    - Rehearsal - NBC Symphony Orchestra, April 12, 1940
* Dukas:  Ariane et Barbe-Blue, Suite
    - Rehearsal - NBC Symphony Orchestra, February 28, 1947
* Dvorak:  Symphonic Variations, op. 78, excerpt and Finale
    - Rehersals - NBC Symphony Orchestra, December 2, 3, 1948
* Liszt:  Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 (arr. Muller-Berghaus)
    - NBC Symphony Orchestra, April 4, 1943
* Sousa:  Stars and Stripes Forever (arr. Toscanini)
    - NBC Symphony Orchestra, April 4, 1943


Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 3 PM
This program will focus on Toscanini' last concert (April 4, 1954), as well as 
the memorial broadcast presnted the day after his death.

* Brahms, Piano concerto no. 2, 4th movement (with Vladimir Horowitz, piano)
    - NBC Symphony Orchestra, February 19, 1945
* Meyerbeer:  L'Etoile du Nord, Overture
    - Rehearsal - NBC Symphony Orchestra, November 1, 1951
* Excerpts from Final NBC Symphony Orchestra concert, April 4, 1954
* Announcements of Toscanini's Retirement, April 4, 1954
* "Toscanini:  The Man Behind the Legend" - highlights, January 17, 1957


Admission is free and first come, first served.
Please call (212) 642-0142 for further information.

These programs are presented in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 
death of Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957).  A related exhibition will open in the 
Library's Astor Gallery on February 20, 2007:

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/lpa/lpaexhibdesc.cfm?id=441



Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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