The music of Don Gillis III; 24

You're listening to music. Give us. From the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas the national educational radio network brings you music by Don DeLillo's And coincidentally this is Daniel is who is sitting at his desk in the division of Music School of the arts at SMU. Week two with a most cordial welcome once again. This week we're going to present only two works one a rather king sized marsh and the other a brand new tape of a work I wrote during the summer of 1967. In observance of Maya Soto skinnies 100 anniversary. Earlier on this series we played the premiere performance of it. But this week we'll have the pleasure of hearing it recorded this specially for us by Colonel Arnold Gabriel and the United States Air Force Symphony Orchestra with Sergeant Harry Gleason as narrator and our

show gets under way now with that king size March I talked about a moment ago. It's called The Mighty Mac and it was written to celebrate the opening of the Mackinaw Bridge which was built over the straits of Mackinaw in northern Michigan. Here it is now played for us by the United States Army Band of Fort Myer Virginia conducted by Colonel Sam Mills are an abode of the mighty Mac. Seuss.

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The night in a march in the grand manner for a concert band played for us by the United States Army Band under the baton of Colonel Santa Ana Botha during the summer of 1967 I wrote a score and text in tribute to I have to attest can any on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of his birth. It was premiered in Reston Virginia under the baton of Dr. James Christian pull. And later recorded especially for us on this program by the men of the United States Air Force Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Colonel Arnold Gabriel with Sergeant Harry Gleason as a narrator. Music by Don Gillis brings to Arturo Toscanini a portrait of a century. Time is 1867 the place is Parma in the north of Italy.

The people on our stage are both named Tuscany Garibaldi warrior. She is String Field woman from the soil itself together. Parents of a newborn son baptized Arturo. The name itself was given to a sickly child a child whose chances for survival seemed quite slim indeed but survived he did and his boyhood began in strength and vigor. Well almost like it was a gift. He had a fascination for sounds all kinds of subtle church bells are heard bands or voices singing in a choir. He liked it all. And legend has it that he ran away from home to follow bands and Hurdy Gurdy Man and legend also spins the tale of operas learned from workers in his father's

tailor shop. Or indeed his father was a tailor and cried Bill Garibaldi Warrior was a pillar in civilian life but a tailor only through necessity of bread to eat close to where he worked but not enough to make the business grow and prosper. And when the lad Arturo grew a bit he made a plan to educate him at the School of Music there in Parma. Why not. The youngster thought of nothing else but music. And so with some delay the lad was finally in luck to play the violin as intended but he accepted as a cellist and the nine began the organization of his genius force of his vast and most miraculous temple.

Do you know the word perfection is the word used freely in our time. But in those days in Parma is Conservatory of Music perfection meant well perfection. It was not an adjective but a state of being and accomplishment brought about by dedicated spring and energetic application of will and discipline of the mind and soul in the body reaching always for that point of achievement at the very pinnacle of accomplishment. This was his daily role perfections secret with his energies his drives his

dynamic forces nothing less than perfection would bring in content. It was no wonder then that we read that all of his grades were perfect. Not a single flaw in him and on his graduation day his accolade was perfection itself. He was at once a skilled pianist a good composer a splendid cellist an excellent music theorist and he had already begun to conduct not grandly of course but with his fellow students. And when graduation day arrived he perfection in his studies having been achieved walked away to find a new horizon in the world of professional music. He was not idle all he was hired as a cellist in a little opera house near

Parma in the town of Clark. Anyways the shape of things to come began to form in that moment for had he not been there he might not have met a man named Ross who soon was to take an opera company to South America but he did meet Rossi was engaged as first cellist and assistant chorus master for the South American season. The time of the 30th day of June in 1886 the place Rio de Janeiro the drama played involve Diana in the crowd which booed and hissed until at last in desperation the impresarios and his assistant chorus master into the pit and without a moment's notice he stepped upon the podium. From that night on he was Arturo Toscanini conductor for all time. It was a mite of almost miracle proportion when young Arturo Toscanini a boy of

19 years walked into the pit at the grocer going below there and real. That night in July he walked away a boy a normal. He was a man of music and as Maestro walked into the future and toward immortality finished the season as conductor with the Aussie company and a further demonstrated the thoroughness of his preparation by conducting still other operas. And when the tour was finished he returned to Italy and made a success of his Italian debut by conducting the Lani's at Mayo in Turin. At age 19. Arturo Toscanini had no plans to conduct one day perhaps but not immediately. He returned to his

cello and went to La Scala to play in the orchestra because Verdi was preparing the world premiere of his opera Otello. His first association with Verdi was one of my in-stores greatest personal reward. You idolized him as a man you worshipped him as a composer. He sang the song of Italy and the Maestro was the force that made him sing most perfect Toscanini his name and fame began reaching the ears of those who could offer him a podium. And when they hired him he rewarded them with evenings in the theatre which made history in their brilliance and their beauty. In 1890 too he conducted the world premiere of bellow in the

Bill of anime in Milan and in 1996 the world premiere of global Wayman turns to wait here. He was scarcely 30 he became the artistic director of La Scala quickly his name became synonymous with perfection in the world. What no long story of success can be of interest. Just a chronicle of review with words of praise from almost every land around the world to contemplate Toscanini the conductor was one thing the public the man who is now historic accolades work and in daily devotion to the altar of his own other Toscanini was the man who married me

was head of house the whole 1897 on the 21st of July is lovely Carla became his bride the madam Carla who gave him Walter and Wanda and Wallace who with a genius equal to his own caught up his fiery temperament in the daily crucible of living and use the strength to nurture him into them and thus made a gift to music from the whole. To give him privilege sanctuary for his study and his thoughts. Scholar here again it was a success the conducted in Italy in the winter's summertime you journey begin to South America on the T April Cologne in Buenos Aires felt the presence of his genius there in many seasons of great. Departure from the scarlet trail but then later he returned Scala once

again enjoyed its golden years with Tuscany in the pit. Nineteen eighty left once more and this time came to us in New York City the Metropolitan Opera House. The seven magic years of Toscanini at the Met years immortalized by memories both music and achievements. Never since accomplished they are memories now of course told about in books and critics writings are treasured privately in the hearts of those yet still alive who saw him in the glory of those years. Our time does not permit the detail into everything. No man's a

century much less a Toscanini's you can be told. So some of his metropolitan days are now a part of history. And when he left to go back home in 1950 a war was blazing and his whole energies and the vigor went to help his beloved Italy. If it performances and frontline concerts with the band was a part of it be proud of so then the war he brought Lescott his orchestra to the United States on tour and made his first recordings in a church in Camden New Jersey in 19 20 21 years resumed in 1922. Maestro again brought glory to Milan Scala was a proud of a noble theatre and on its podium stood a man who had no peers in either the opera or symphony. The quick assimilation of his genius memory of a school or the purser varying dedication to

his study in rehearsal and then the revelation of its truth in public hearing. This was the Toscanini way mantel of the word maestro. Will fit less mobile still in the stowed upon anyone but him. Nineteen twenty six The New York Philharmonic in years he spent in making music and concerts on the stage of Carnegie Hall device called Radio plus millions more began to learn about the man whose music seemed to be so ever right. The only way that music could be heard in such projects toward the Philharmonic in Europe in 1930 one could scarcely read the following reviews with credibility. Yet eyewitness

words from those who saw him there gave testimony to the fact that the orchestra was great and the Europeans still paid a good tribute to their Toscanini and his new world orchestra. By 1930 31 Salzburg in 1933 and music of the loveliness that far transcends the right of words to tell its beauty is part of magic days with lights still on the podium but the tyranny of two men a Hitler and the Mussolini drove him to declare his opposition to this humiliation of mankind. And in 1936 Maestro sought to retire. He was almost 70. The believing music wasn't privileged to this man. A network guided by another genius my name Sarnoff sent word to Toscanini that they

would form an orchestra for him made up of the best players of the world if he would accept the podium and on the night of Christmas 1947 the world first heard maestro and his orchestra the MBC a Christmas present which endured for 17 years at least six million people heard the maestro in his Symphony on radio. During those 17 years of international broadcast in the legacy of over 200 hours of recordings he made millions more since 1954 the date of his last broadcast there in April on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Millions heard him that sad day when he retired he heard the final notes of Wagner's one of mice to sing they heard a huge ovation learned there was no acknowledgement.

My life story part of the world that you step down comes to walk slowly to the wind and from that moment I never played again before the public. His music making was not known of course for in June of that same year he recorded sections of. Very opera that had marked his debut is now closed the final pages of his conducting career when after he had done it in the noble life of being maestro to the world was over. No more opera no more concerts only loneliness in his studio at home and memories of almost seven decades of glory filled. It had begun in Rio in 1886 to New York City in

1954. He was 19 when he began and when he ended his career he was 87 years of age. The twilight years of his life began in Riverdale in his home. He was a little beloved. There were no schedules now to meet. He lived in solitude except for members of his family and his closest friends. He listened to broadcasts he had done and he heard recordings he had made into his final hour he studied school still searching for some hidden truths had not revealed its presence. Seventy years of making news almost 90 years of age and then on the 16th day of January one thousand fifty seven. His life was in the maestro.

Shocked and sad somehow thought this towering strength of man in the maestro would go on forever. But he had now gone to be a part of history. His Requiem Mass was something his body placed within the tomb and it was over the Toscanini century most part of which for him was filled with what one thought to find and then revealed the truth of news. Paul made his worth be measured know as one full century has passed since he came

into being and we count the world premieres he do. The cult was thousands of performances he gave an opera house or on symphonic sting and we evaluate the lives he touched. The standards that he says can we look into the future of another's injuries and find his figure standing there still enduring strong. Will the other giants of the world. Who was this man we honor. Why do we pay him homage in this way and not other myth. What did he do to gain such stature that the world pays tribute to his memory. He was my ace and he was genius. Father Husband friend a man of complex total dedication to his art. Most of all he was Arturo Toscanini sister. But this performance of Arturo Toscanini a portrait of the century recorded

especially for us by Colonel Arnold Gabriel and the man of the United States Air Force Symphony Orchestra with Sergeant Harry Gleason as narrator. We have come to the end of another edition of music by Don give us. Next week we'll be on hand again and we'll bring you two words ballet per band and the saga of a pioneer. I hope you'll be with us and I hope you'll keep on writing us thousands of cards and letters saying how much you enjoyed the show. OK two letters and a postcard. Anyway if you do write a letter or card send it to me and give a separate division of music Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas. Until next week this is done. It was saying the national educational radio makes all of this possible bless their little killer cycles and frequently modulating frequency modulations so long. Oh

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