Word: boleslaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year: the stage presentation, first in Philadelphia, then in Manhattan, of the most controversial composition; of the age, Igor Stravinsky's savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...