The week before Gus Rancatore opened the doors to his ice cream shop, Toscanini’s, in Central Square, he stood on the sidewalk just up Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard Square, surveying the landscape.

The “heavyweight champion of the slow-churned world” has been located in Central Square for more than 35 years, and even though Toscanini’s will shutter soon for renovations, it will always have a ...

A new and expanded edition of a book first published 58 years ago about a man said to have been the world’s greatest conductor shows why the myth took hold and why it remains unchallenged. Arturo ...

Editor’s note: This story is reprinted from EAT magazine, featuring the best restaurants in the valley. EAT is available on magazine racks and in hotel lobbies for free. With snow slightly falling, ...

For Toscanini (1867-1957), pursuing perfection was a matter of conscience. Here was the right way, the only way, of being a musician; any other was simply wrong. In this brilliant biography, Harvey ...

What: Toscanini Ristorante, upscale, modern, innovative Italian. Where: 60 Avondale Lane, Beaver Creek Plaza, Beaver Creek. Cost: Appetizers $10-$24; entrees $25-$45. Signature dish: Pettine (scallops ...

ROME — Concerts, exhibitions and movie showings are among the events planned worldwide to remember Arturo Toscanini, 50 years after the death of the celebrated Italian conductor. Commemorations will ...

In his black high-collared rehearsal coat, Arturo Toscanini walked into NBC’s Manhattan Studio 8-H and launched a Robert Shaw-trained chorus and a handful of soloists into the music he loved: Verdi’s ...

ON March 31, 1952, something happened for which music lovers around the world had been waiting, none too patiently, for a quarter century. Arturo Toscanini, eighty-five years and six days old, walked ...