Arturo Toscanini

Jarmila Novotna (1907-1994) was a Czech opera singer who made movies with Fred Zinnemann, Montgomery Clift and Mario Lanza. She was a favorite of Arturo…

Harvey Sachs wrote his first biography of Arturo Toscanini in 1978. Nearly 40 years later, he's published a completely new book about the conductor,…

I want you to buy this CD.On Easter Sunday 1939, contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993) sang a concert from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in…

The Palestine Symphony, today the Israel Philharmonic, was founded in 1936 by the Polish born violinist Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947). After a series of…