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Bethlehem this spring entrusted its festival to the leadership of Bruce Anderson Carey, a bespectacled, broad-shouldered Canadian of 57 who teaches at Girard College in Philadelphia, trains and conducts the Mendelssohn Glee Club so well that Conductor Leopold Stokowski frequently engages it to sing difficult choral works with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like blond-mopped Stokowski, Bruce Carey conducted last week without a baton, bringing out the Mass's mighty effects with direct, compelling gestures of his two bare hands. During intermission Festival directors met to discuss ways & means of perpetuating Fred Wolle's idea, to keep Bethlehem...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski was demonstrating a new "Ceno-orchestra System,"* result of a two-year experiment with Bell Telephone Laboratories. Dr. Stokowski sat in the back of the auditorium busily twisting dials, manipulating switches. Three floors above in the Academy ballroom his Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Smallens, played into specially-sensitized microphones which relayed the music to three loudspeakers concealed behind curtains backstage...
Three and a half years ago when the Philadelphia Orchestra started broadcasting, nothing so incensed Conductor Leopold Stokowski as the thought that mere radio engineers had the power to regulate his music, to tone down his surging crescendos, to increase the volume of his fragile pianissimos. After his first few broadcasts Stokowski determined to operate the controls himself. Radio authorities were beside themselves but Stokowski would hear no arguments. He was finally given a desk fitted with dials which he could twiddle to his heart's content. The wires were not connected. Hidden from sight was a working...
...Germanic Museum today at 2.30 o'clock Leopold Stokowski, conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra at the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, will be heard through the special reproducing instrument...
...Film Society is to show to a limited group of members, who pay $12 a year to see ten Sunday evening performances, cinemas of esthetic merit which, because of censors or lack of popular appeal, are not exhibited in commercial cinemansions. Sponsors include George Gershwin, Eva Le Gallienne, Leopold Stokowski, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Norman Bel Geddes, Nelson Rockefeller. Organized not for profit but for "the study, research and development of film art." the Society initiated a trend which is the cinema equivalent of the Little Theatre movement. Already it has a lusty rival: the Film Forum, headed...