[78-L] trivia

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Well, in the teens Toscanini had  quite  a disagreement with either his wife 
or Geraldine Farrar about his ...ahem... friendship, to be euphemistic, with 
the latter. This was the main reason , I understand, that he left the Met 
and went back to La Scala . It was that orchestra that he took on the tour 
which was the begiinning of his  reputation as an orchestral conductor of 
the premier rank rather than  a conducto who was primarly an operatic one. 
This  tour was his introduction to the recording studio.

Am I warm?

Jim Tennyson

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Yes, you're quite warm.  In fact it was the disagreement with the Met, which was officially because of his inability to control the various aspects of production that he insisted on.  But why did it probably save his life?

db