1 Dvorak and Toscanini were frequent guests.

2 It was like playing for Toscanini would be for an instrumentalist.

3 The Toscanini presentation was breathtaking, if for no other reason than its enormity.

4 Arturo Toscanini revered Brahms,[] but Toscanini's score of the C-minor Symphony was so thoroughly marked up that no one but the maestro himself could read it.

5 Arturo Toscanini, Italian-born American conductor and musical director, died in New York aged 89.

6 Toscanini commanded the admiration of music lovers all over the world.

7 In1931 Toscanini was physically attacked for refusing to play the fascist anthem, and for protesting against Hitler's ban on Jewish musicians.

8 Did Toscanini graduate from music school with the highest honors in 1885?

9 The famous Italian orchestra conductor Arturo Toscanini heard her sing in Austria. After the concert he said: "She has a voice that one hears only once in a hundred years."

10 The players took the numbers in the score where Toscanini had lost his temper with them and entered them into the lottery.

11 A New York Philharmonic musician said it years ago: We worshiped Toscanini, but we love Lenny.