Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...80th year, Walter Damrosch had better to boast of than his operas (he wrote three others, The Scarlet Letter, The Dove of Peace, The Man Without a Country). No man living has one more for good music in the U. S. than he. Born of a famed conductor father (Leopold Damrosch) in Breslau, Germany, Walter Damrosch took his own opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap door rattled...
...Leopold of Belgium, Gustaf of Sweden, Haakon of Norway...
...elected were Leopold Ackerman, 2nd '43 of New York City and Leverett House, F. Mitchell Cummins '43 of Mineville. N. Y. and Adams House. Cortlandt Parker '43 of Newport, R. I. and Adams House, Kennedy Smith '48 of Pittsburgh and Eliot House, and Robert G. Tyson '43 of Pittsburgh and Eliot House...
...Buenos Aires theatre last summer, white-haired Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried: "Never in my life have I seen such fire and rhythm!" Platinum-haloed Maestro Leopold Stokowski, who knows fire and rhythm, got Dancer Carmen Amaya to give a special performance for him and his All American Youth Orchestra, willingly paid a fine for keeping the theatre open after midnight. Glossy-domed Impresario Sol Hurok, who knows a good thing even when he doesn't see it, signed up Carmen Amaya by cable for a U.S. visit...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ("Pa-thétique") (All American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50). Conductor Stokowski makes Tchaikovsky's well-recorded heaves, sighs and tears sound like super de luxe movie music...