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Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall,
New York City
for the second movement go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiHzheK4GQ
from 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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