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

[Steve Abrams <steveabrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The final concert was issued  on CD in stereo by Music & Arts in 1984.  It
is still available.  This is a sad affair and the sound is not very good.
(The mono broadcast with commentary can be downloaded from Opera Share.)
However, the concert of March 21st is scheduled for release early next
month, though there is nothing about it on the Music & Arts website.
Toscanini is in much better form here and the (living) stereo sound is quite
vivid.  The program is the overture to the Barber of Seville followed by
Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony.

Steve Abrams

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> The final concert has been available on LP on the Music & Arts label, not 
> sure about a CD release. Excerpts in stereo have been available from time 
> to time.
>
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> Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> > Two questions.
> > Any chance of getting this on the web?
> >
> > Wasn't Toscanini's final concert commercially issued at some point ?
> >
> >                            Roger Kulp
> >
> > Bob Kosovsky <kos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [Please forward to interested 
> > parties]
> >
> > 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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