Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia elders whispered behind closed doors last week. Philadelphia's youth shouted its grievances in the sedate old Academy of Music (see col. 2). Conductor Leopold Stokowski made sad little speeches, appeared deeply hurt. Curtis Bok, president of the Orchestra Association, asked the entire orchestra board to resign. When the...
Philadelphia had never known such a musical pother, such tongue-wagging and intrigue which appeared to lead nowhere. Stokowski was resigning, he said, because of "deep-lying differences'' with the board and its failure to appoint a suitable successor to Manager Arthur Judson (TIME, Dec. 17). Since the board seemed...
In the tumult & the shouting which attended Leopold Stokowski's final Youth Concert, Philadelphia last week came near forgetting a dark-haired, 19-year-old girl and the composition she had played by his Symphony Orchestra. Stokowski's youths (aged 13 to 25) had worked themselves into a...
No mention was made of Esther Everett Lape, new assistant to Curtis Bok, the Orchestra's president (TIME, Oct. 29).
Thanks to Stokowski Philadelphia has had one of the world's great orchestras. And Philadelphians, knowing it, forgot last week that they had laughed at his publicity stunts, thought of him only as a fine musician who had always given them fine concerts. Hundreds of subscribers humbly petitioned him to...