Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Falla: El Amor Brujo (the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Victor, 6 sides; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Carol Brice, contralto; Columbia, 6 sides). Reiner's version of this Debussy-scented Andalusian suite, which includes the popular Fire Dance, is less vivid than Stokowski...
...Chocolate Soldier (music by Oscar Straus; book by Rudolph Bernauer & Leopold Jacobson, "Americanized" by Stanislaus Stange and revised by Guy Bolton; produced by J. H. Del Bondio & Hans Bartsch) has tunes that can still send you out of the theater whistling. After almost 40 years, they have an Old World dash and melodiousness; even My Hero is not too much the worse for a thousand ship's bands and restaurant fiddlers...
Obviously the Philharmonic would use Walter's year shopping for a permanent conductor. Next year's guest conductors were the apparent favorites in the race: Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell, Paris' Charles Munch and Hollywood Bowl's Leopold Stokowski. All but Stokowski (who once was) are clients of music's Mr. Big, Arthur Judson, the Philharmonic's manager. Judson thus had a firmer hold on the throne than before Rodzinski abdicated (TIME...
...first wife and their small son. It was a big break when the local opera director let him conduct Verdi's Ernani: "The smell of the scenery, the makeup, the wigs . . . you can't get it out of your system. Ask any opera man." In 1924 Leopold Stokowski, visiting Warsaw, met Rodzinski, later hired him as assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. When Rodzinski reached the U.S., the first thing "Stokie" did was to run his fingers through Rodzinski's slick and parted hair, "to give me a conductor's look." He did much more...
Joyce's characters were rendered as "streams of consciousness," his world as a relativistic universe of "mind" events." In a century that has been wished, by some well-wishers, on the Common Man, Joyce's heroically common Leopold Bloom seemed designed to remind them of the man they are talking about...