Toscanini Programme
RECENT 4YA programme about Toscanini was reminiscent: of certain film-sequences which used to be a novelty but which are now, by frequent repetition, drearily familiar. I mean those sequences where the heroine, as an opera-singer is represented as making her way to fame and fortune ina rapidly superimposed series of shots of various opera houses, programmes, backstage glimpses, fluttering calendars, furiously sawing violins, express trains, close-ups of singer and conductor in dif-
ferent operas, and so on. The whole thing represents many years of slow and patient hard work, but on the film it dccupies a brief couple of minutes. The Toscanini programme was similarly produced. The composer’s long life of devotion to the cause of music was given in a series of brief notes about his career, interpolated with snippets of this or that Toscanini recording. The music resembled the music of several recent films of the lives of the virtuosi, in that no record was allowed to play itself out completely without interruption; only at the tail end of the programme were we allowed time for some really connected music, unadorned with factual detail. Both the facts of the composer’s life and the music he conducts are important, but I suggest that neither can be appreciated when one is superimposed on the other.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 13
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217Toscanini Programme New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 13
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