Editing Arturo Toscanini (section)

==Legacy==
Beginning in 1963, NBC Radio broadcast a weekly series of programs entitled ''Toscanini: The Man Behind The Legend'', commemorating Toscanini's years with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The show, hosted by NBC announcer Ben Grauer, who had also hosted many of the original Toscanini broadcasts, featured interviews with members of the conductor's family, as well as musicians of the NBC Symphony, David Sarnoff, and noted classical musicians who had worked with the conductor, such as [[Giovanni Martinelli]]. It spotlighted partial or complete rebroadcasts of many of Toscanini's recordings. The program ran for at least three years, and did not feature any of the revisionist commentary about the conductor one finds so often today in magazines such as [[American Record Guide]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Search Results - - 173 Results|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/TNMBL/browse/?start=170|access-date=2023-03-17|website=UNT Digital Library|language=en}}</ref>{{fv|date=September 2023}} The series was rebroadcast by [[PBS]] radio in the late 1970s.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

In 1986, the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]] purchased the bulk of Toscanini's papers, scores and sound recordings from his heirs. Named The Toscanini Legacy, this vast collection contains thousands of letters, programs and various documents, over 1,800 scores and more than 400 hours of sound recordings. A finding aid for the scores and sound recordings is available on the library's website. In-house finding aids are available for other parts of the collection.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

The library also has many other collections that have Toscanini materials in them, such as the Bruno Walter papers, the [[Fiorello H. La Guardia]] papers, and a collection of material from [[Rose Bampton]].{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}