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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 1/12/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 1/12/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes a performance of selections from Verdi's Requiem and features "In Memoriam for Arturo Toscanini."
Date: January 12, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 8/2/1967 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 8/2/1967

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: Centennial Series,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and was a subset of the radio series "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend". The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of the William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini, The Skater's Waltz by Emile Waldteufel, and Symphony No. 8 by Franz Schubert.
Date: August 2, 1967
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 6/23/1965 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 6/23/1965

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Thomas' Mignon and Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, and features an interview with baritone Salvatore Baccaloni.
Date: June 23, 1965
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 10/12/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 10/12/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes rehearsals of Cherubini's Symphony in D.
Date: October 12, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 3/10/1965 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 3/10/1965

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Cimarosa's Overture to The Secret Marriage and Wagner's Good Friday Music from Parsifal, and features an interview with Dr. Harry Gross.
Date: March 10, 1965
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 7/7/1965 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 7/7/1965

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Beethoven's Creatures of Prometheus Overture and Rossini's Semiramide Overture, and features an interview with clarinetist David Weber.
Date: July 7, 1965
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 1/18/1967 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 1/18/1967

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: Centennial Series,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and was a subset of the radio series "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend". The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Requiem Mass in C minor by Luigi Cherubini.
Date: January 18, 1967
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 5/26/1965 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 5/26/1965

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture and Smetana's The Moldau, and features an interview with Edward Block, member of the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Date: May 26, 1965
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 6/16/1965 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 6/16/1965

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes a performance of Verdi's Te Deum and features a visit to Casa Verdi, a rest home for elderly musicians.
Date: June 16, 1965
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 9/16/1964 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 9/16/1964

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Rossini's Overture to La Gazza Ladra, Schumann's Rhenish Symphony, and an interview with Oreste Di Sevo.
Date: September 16, 1964
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967 (open access)

“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967

This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.
Date: 2018
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 9/1/1965 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 9/1/1965

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Tchaikovsky's March: The Nutcracker Suite, Rossini's William Tell Overture and Sousa's El Capitan, and features an interview with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Irvin Stein.
Date: September 1, 1965
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 2/2/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 2/2/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture and Elgar's Enigma Variations, and features an interview with Wally McGill.
Date: February 2, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 8/28/1963 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 8/28/1963

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Wagner's Die Walküre , Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, "Dawn" and "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" from Die Götterdämerung, and Prelude of the Kiss of Death from Tristan und Isolde.
Date: August 28, 1963
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 10/28/1964 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 10/28/1964

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of excerpts from Verdi's La forza del destino, Puccini's La traviata, La bohème, and an interview with Jan Peerce.
Date: October 28, 1964
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 6/9/1965 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 6/9/1965

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Brahms's Hungarian Dances and Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, and features an interview with Harry Kugel and Gilman Collier about Kamp Kohut.
Date: June 9, 1965
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 2/8/1967 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 2/8/1967

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: Centennial Series,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and was a subset of the radio series "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend". The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini and includes an interview with Puccini's step-daughter.
Date: February 8, 1967
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 9/13/1967 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 9/13/1967

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: Centennial Series,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and was a subset of the radio series "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend". The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Un ballo in maschera, Act III, Scene 1 and 2 by Giuseppe Verdi.
Date: September 13, 1967
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 2/1/1967 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - Centennial Series, 2/1/1967

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: Centennial Series,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and was a subset of the radio series "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend". The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Leonore Overture No. 3 by Ludvig van Beethoven, Feste Romane by Ottorino Respighi, and an interview with Elsa Respighi and Eric Leisdorf.
Date: February 1, 1967
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 5/11/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 5/11/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Cherubini's Ali Baba and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B flat minor, and an interview with composer Vittorio Rieti.
Date: May 11, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 5/25/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 5/25/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Cherubini's Overture to Anacreon and Haydn's Symphony No. 101, and an interview with NBC Orchestra member Michael Krasnopolsky.
Date: May 25, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 7/6/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 7/6/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Sibelius's Finlandia, Mendelssohn's Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dukas's Socerer's Apprentice and Bizet's Suite No. 1 from Carmen, and an interview with horn player Arthur Berv.
Date: July 6, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 11/16/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 11/16/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Thomas' Overture to Mignon and Elgar's Enigma Variations and features an interview with La Folia publisher Marziale Sisca.
Date: November 16, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 12/14/1966 transcript

NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 12/14/1966

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Beethoven's Prometheus Overture and Symphony No. 7 and features an interview with music producer and conductor Arthur Austin.
Date: December 14, 1966
Creator: Gillis, Don
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library