Published on
Jan 22, 2026
Liberalism’s Pianist
In 1922, during a performance of Verdi’s Falstaff in Milan, a group of Blackshirts in the audience demanded that the orchestra play the Fascist anthem, “Giovinezza.” The conductor, Arturo Toscanini, refused. “The disrupters became more vociferous,” writes …
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The New York Review of Books
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