Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp

Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall, New York Cityfor the second movement go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... an interview by Robert Stumpf II with Bob Bloom, who played with Toscanini:I played for him for six years. He yelled at me a lot, but as a father. After awhile I became, from those in the orchestra, possibly closer than anyone else to Toscanini. Away from the podium, he was like a little child. He loved music. In his study, he would show me Puccini's snuff box, Verdi's eye glasses. He treasured these things.One day I was visiting him and he asked me to stay for lunch. I could tell he was very tired, and we had finished our business, so I told him that I didn't have to stay. I said, "Maestro, you look tired. Why don't you take a nap?"He said, "I've been up since five o'clock this morning studying this symphony." The symphony that week was Beethoven's Fifth.I said, "Maestro, how many times have you conducted that?"He answered, "Oh, hundreds."I said, "And you're still studying it?"I loved his answer. He said, "Well, I'm always afraid I may have missed something." This is how he really felt about music.

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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