![]() ![]() The neo-romantic Adagio was an instant success and has remained Barber’s most popular work by far. In actuality, Toscanini, whose poor eyesight made it impossible to read a score from the podium, had kept the scores just long enough to commit them to memory and intended, as he told the composer’s friend Gian Carlo Menotti, to perform both works on the air. Barber profoundly revered the conductor and had endeavored to compose something worthy of him only to receive a snub. Not always a paragon of tact, Toscanini sent back both scores without comment, infuriating the composer. Samuel Barber submittedfor the maestro’s consideration both the First Essay for Orchestra and the Adagio for Strings, an orchestral transcription of the Adagio from his String Quartet in b minor. Musically conservative in taste, Toscanini, nevertheless, was eager to include suitably lyrical works by American composers on the series. But in 1937, NBC inaugurated its live orchestral series under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. Tchaikovsky Competition Winner Daniil Trifonov plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertoįor all the hoopla over Public Radio – whose affiliates are quickly converting their classical music programming to all-news-all-the-time – gone are the days when a commercial AM radio station had its own resident symphony orchestra, much less with the world’s foremost maestro to conduct a weekly broadcast. ![]()
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