Volume 49, Number 17 · November 7, 2002
Music, Maestro, Please!
By Michael Kimmelman
The Letters of Arturo Toscanini
compiled, edited, and translated from the Italian by Harvey Sachs
Knopf, 468 pp., $35.00
Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years
by Mortimer H. Frank
Amadeus, 358 pp., $29.95
'My God, what a life!' Arturo Toscanini wrote in 1936. 'And to think that many people envy me! They see nothing but the exterior, which glitters in appearance, but a person's interior, soul, heart—what unknown, unexplored things they are!!!'
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