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From a huge jug he poured a brownish-red, viscous liquid into a couple of tumblers. The Maestro's companion says it tasted like a mixture of castor oil, hair tonic and pitch. Turning white at the first sip, Mr. Toscanini drained his glass at a gulp. Outside, his friend asked him: "Why did you drink that vile stuff?" The Maestro said: "The poor fellow meant well, and I didn't want to refuse.
When he, the pants and the sweater had been with the Symphony ten years, the men gave him a testimonial dinner. Next to Mr. Toscanini he's the world's most temperamental conductor, but he has the ability to keep himself in check when he wants to. "Koussevitzky," says Ernest Newman, the eminent English music critic, "has a volcanic temperament, yet never have I known it to run away with him.
Little need now to sing the praises of Boris Godunoff, though not having seen and heard Ohaliapine, New York is yet to receive the fullest and sharpest impression of the rôle notwithstanding the sympathetic reading of Arturo Toscanini. Khovanchtchina is even more rugged, more Russian.
For a moment the man who can make music like no one else on earth listened to the girl and her pet. Then he sighed and said: "Oh, if I could only whistle!" Those who know Mr. Toscanini intimately find in those six simple words the key to his character. He is, they say, the most modest man who ever lived, a man sincerely at a loss to understand the endless fuss that is made about him.
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