If treatments for his “glass arm” had not kept Conductor Toscanini so long in Italy (TIME, March 14 et ante), the world première of his friend Ottorino Respighi’s Maria Egiziaca might have ...

The concert will conclude with “Pines of Rome” (1924), the second of Respighi’s three tone poems celebrating Rome’s architectural marvels, festivals, pines, and fountains. Avagliano serves ...