Democrats Are Bad Actors Editor’s Note: In the August 14 issue of National Review, we had a review by Jay Nordlinger of Harvey Sachs’s Toscanini: Musician of Conscience. This week, in his ...

Arturo Toscanini, one of the foremost orchestra conductors in the world, died yesterday at the age of 89. Death came at his home in Riverdale, the Bronx, at 8:40 a.m. He had been suffering from ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

In the same orchestra, on cello, was Arturo Toscanini, who conducted the first performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1936. Overcoming prejudice, Otello is awarded command of Cyprus ...