This biography, scheduled to coincide with the 150th birthday of Arturo Toscanini, is as energetic and robust as the great Italian conductor himself. Harvey Sachs, a faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music, draws on the archives of La Scala, New York鈥檚 Metropolitan Opera, and the New York Philharmonic, as well as Toscanini鈥檚 own correspondence to create a thorough and highly engaging portrait of a remarkable musician, courageous anti-Fascist, and complex human being.
