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...Thank you for setting us straight on Leopold Stokowski [June 3]. His genius has been far more profitable to the musical world than his few past antics have been abusive. Presently, all we are asked to contend with are his Dionysian method of conducting (which is, for many, a more valuable visual aid than some are willing to admit) and certain liberties he may take with an orchestral score. Those who may feel they are not supposed to like such things need to remember what Brahms once said to Conductor Arthur Nikisch after Nikisch's fiery interpretation...
When Conductor Leopold Stokowski turned 84 in April, the members of his American Symphony Orchestra presented him with a sapling to be planted on his small farm in New York State, where he spends each weekend tending his groves of trees. It was only appropriate, for Stokowski is something like the John ny Appleseed of symphonic music. In his nearly 60 years on the podium, he has cultivated more major orchestras and nurtured more young musicians than any other conductor...
MUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (London). The usual orchestral transcription of Mussorgsky's piano pieces contains subtle coloring by Ravel, but Leopold Stokowski has orchestrated his own version and recorded it with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in brassy sweeps of sound that have a bold and often wild impact. Quite unlike the bizarre, ornate drawings that inspired Mussorgsky in the first place...
...guests had grievances with at least one of the others. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie and Somalia's Premier Abdirazak Hussein were hardly on the best of terms now that raids and murder had resumed along the frontier they share. Burundi's Premier Leopold Biha kept well clear of the Rwanda delegation: Watutsi warriors are still massed on the Rwanda side of his border, threatening invasion. The Sudan's Mohammed Mahgoub has reason to resent Uganda's Milton Obote, who harbors Sudanese rebels. Congo Strongman Joseph Mobutu is no friend of Tanzania's Julius...
...John Barbirolli, 66, whose solid musicianship, gained during a long career as conductor of such ensembles as the New York Philharmonic and Britain's Hallé Orchestra, compensates mightily for the lack of depth in his players. Mindful that attendance had skidded with the modernist programming of Leopold Stokowski (1955-61), Barbirolli plays it safe and sticks close to the classics, out of which he produces a sound as fresh and breezy as the Southwest itself...