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Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...
...Schiller's Ode to Joy, which concludes the symphony, he hired a Cuban chorus of 150 who knew no German. Then 21 string players and a tenor who knew German were flown from New York by chartered plane. And Stokowski triumphantly assured Cubans that the sublime music of Beethoven would be conducted by the sublime Stokowski-three days late...
...Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
...Philharmonic's conductor, Austrian-born Erich Kleiber he sent a message in Spanish: "To save the sublime music of Beethoven, I request your cooperation as a colleague." Replied Kleiber: "In order to save the sublime music of Beethoven you need a good orchestra...
Bach's Suite No. 2 in B Minor for strings and flute; Mozart's C Major ("Jupiter") Symphony; Beethoven's Fifth; Brahms's First; Schumann's Third ("Rhenish"); Shostakovich's Fifth; Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor; Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; Stravinsky's Petrouchka; Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun...