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...DIED. Leopold Stokowski, 95, irreverent, in novative conductor whose career spanned 70 years and some 7,000 concerts; of a heart attack; in Nether Wallop, England (see MUSIC...
...been a great lesson to me to know that in life it is the unexpected that happens. Sometimes it's tragic and sometimes it's happy like this time." --Leopold Stokowski, reuniting as guest conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra after an embittered 19-year interval...
MORE DISQUIETED than the man without a country, more stifled than the rebel without a cause, is the conductor without an orchestra. In the case of Leopold Stokowski, whose repeated misfortune it was to be without that sine qua non, the void had a peculiar poignancy. It didn't matter that Stokowski was perhaps the greatest innovative genius on the podium. Or that when he conducted, box office receipts soared. In the end his alleged ruthlessness would eclipse them, and prompt a dark ending to one orchestral link after another...
Thus ends for Cincinnati, at least, the drum and cymbal career of Leopold Stokowski, who made Beethoven dance on his ears; who made Brahms a puling, sickly sentimentalist; who calcined Strauss in more clashing and fighting colors than Strauss ever knew; and who Stokowski-ized each composer whom he took into his directorial hands...
...within the year was in Hollywood. Like the character he portrayed in Woody Allen's film The Front, Mostel was blacklisted during the McCarthy years. He made a triumphant return to the entertainment world, however, in the 1958 Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, playing Leopold Bloom. In his varied roles onstage and in film-from the hapless movie entrepreneur in The Producers to the man turned beast in Ionesco's The Rhinoceros-Mostel was the master of paradoxes: a graceful fat man and a wise buffoon...