Tor’rington

Fr. Herbert, Dudley, Engl., Oct. 20, 1837—Toronto, 1917; pianist and conductor; articled pupil of Jas. Fitzgerald; at 16 organist at Bewdley; 1856-68, organist, Great St. James’s Church, Montreal, Canada; also solo-violinist, cond. and band-master; his orch. represented Canada at the Boston Peace Jubilee, 1869; then teacher New Engl. Cons.; ist vIn. Handel and Haydn, and other socs.; from 1873, organist Metropolitan Ch., Toronto, Canada, and cond. Toronto Philh. Soc.; 1886, organised the first Toronto mus. festival; 1888, founded Toronto Coll. of Mus.; c. services, etc. To scan in i (t6s-ki-né’-né), Arturo, b. Parma, Italy, March 25, 1867; most eminent conductor of his period; pupil of the Cons. in his native city, where he won a diploma in ’cello playing and comp. in 1885; he had already participated ably in a concert tour as ’cellist the preceding year, incl. appearances at the Exposition in Turin; in the spring of 1886 he was as ’cellist for the opera season in Rio de Janeiro, and his début as conductor occurred on the second night of the season, when he took the orch. of the by the public; he at once proved his mettle; and the perf. was a triumph. In 1887 he conducted in Turin the prem iére of Catalani’s ““Edmea.”’ He led many orchestral there, incl. 4o programs during the Exposition of 1898, when he gave the first perfs. in “Stabat “Taudi Verdi’s works, Mater,’ “Te Deum” Vergine.” Genoa. In 1895 he gave the 1st Italian perfs. of Wagner’s “‘Gétterdimmerung” at the Regio in Turin. He conducted opera and symph. concerts at La Scala under the management Gatti-Casazza from 1898 to 1908. When that impresario came to the Met. Op. in the latter year, he engaged To scan in i as conductor. T. remained in N. Y. until 1915, giving a long series of brilliant perfs., incl. the prem iéres of works by Puccini, Dukas, Wolf-Ferrari, Monte mezz i and Giordano, and conducting ‘“‘Gétterdimmerung”’ and Gluck’s ‘‘Armide.’ During this period in N. Y., he also led 2 symphonic concerts in 1913. He left the Met. as a result of a reported di atisfaction with its~ artistic policy and returned to Italy in 1915, where he was active during the war as a conductor of concerts for welfare work. He toured the U. S. and Canada with an orch. composed of musicians from La Scala, and also led fests. in Turin and Milan in 1920. In the following year he became the mus. dir. at La Scala, a post which he retained until 1929. During this period he led the world prem iéres of Boito’s “‘ Nerone”’ in 1924, of Puccini’s posthumous opera “Turandot” in 1926. Beginning with the season of 1926-27 he was guest conductor of the N. Y. Philh. Orch. He immediately estab. a reputation as perhaps the most brilliant cond. who had ever appeared in N. Y. After 1928 he became permanent cond. of this orch., director, sharing the podium with several others during each season. In 1930 he took the orch. for a tour of leading Eur. cities. In summer of 1932 he conducted at the Bayreuth Fest., but severed his connection with Bayreuth later as the result of his disapproval of discriminations made by the Nat’! Socialist régime in that country against musicians of Jewish birth. ‘He was one of a number of prominent musicians who addre ed a cablegram of protest to the German govt. He led a few concerts (exchanging the Philh. baton with Stokowski) at head of the Phila. Orch. in 1930-31. In 1933 he began a series of annual appearances at the Salzburg Fest., but resigned 1938; has also conducted brilliant concerts at London, Vienna and Paris. 1936 he announced his resignation as cond. of the N. Y. Philh. Orch. because of the strain imposed by a regular post. His special virtues as a cond. consist in his fidelity to the composer’s score, the extreme perfection of detail and the lyrical tone with which he endows even the most abstruse modern works. He invariably conducts without a score. He agreed to lead 10 concerts by a specially formed orch. for the Nat’l Broadcasting Co., 1937-33. Tosel’li, Enrico, Florence, March 13, 1883—Jan. 15. 1926; composer and pianist; pupil of Sgambati and Martucci; début Monte Carlo, 1896; played in London and America, 1901; he eloped with Prince Louise of Saxony, whom he m.; c. pop. operand pf.-pieces; his. ettas, ‘“Serenade”’ esp. well-known.