Don Satz is taking a poll about the popularity of Toscannini as conductor:

Accept for very few items beyond his early opera conducting (the NBC
symphony Beethoven Ninth comes to mind) I believe he was a somewhat over
rated conductor.  The generally poor recordings by which his modern work
was represented does not help the cause at all!  My judgement remains open
on the matter.

Bernard Gregoire
Hingham, MA