Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season-a time when symphony conductors take a rest and the players try to fathom the strange habits of guest conductors. With Conductor Artur Rodzinski away, the men of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony had just gotten used to fiddling and blowing in the allout way Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski wanted. Now they had to get used to another guest conductor...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...rode tiptoed to fame (and royal favor) as a ballet dancer. One night, when he was over 60, big-nosed, silken-bearded King Leopold II saw Cléo dance at the opera in Paris. He held up the show for half an hour while he talked to her in the lobby. Next day the town was buzzing...
...Leopold was a man of many amours, and he took them the way a child eats candy. But his infatuation for Cléo caused as big a buzz as Ludwig of Bavaria's fling with Lola Montez. Proletarians denounced it in dingy bistros, and bourgeois canvassed it dreamily on the conjugal couch. Cléo became almost as scandalous as conditions in the Congo rubber jungles, which Leopold had also bequeathed his country. The king's enemies, of whom he had many, called him "Cléopold." L'affaire Cléo enlivened the otherwise boring...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's overture to Don Giovanni, Hindemith's First Symphony, Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. Soloist: Violinist Jacques Thibaud, in his first U.S. concert in 15 years. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...