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Best orchestra performance-the American Symphony Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski conducting), in Ives's Symphony No. 4 (Columbia). The Ives symphony was also voted the best composition by a contemporary classical composer...
...Paris just a block away from Alkan's home), he appeared as a bit actor in several Jackie Cooper films, attended a professional school "for spoiled movie brats." At 20, with prize money he won in piano competitions, he went to Manhattan to study with Olga Samaroff Stokowski, Leopold's first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1946, Lewenthal toured the U.S. for three years. While he was walking through Central Park one summer evening in 1953, a gang...
...Painters paint on canvas," Conductor Leopold Stokowski once lectured an unruly audience. "We paint our tone pictures on silence. Only you can supply that...
...edgy, neurotic menace by Broadway Newcomer Karen Black, has a "ather fixation and consequently a poisonous hostility toward her new stepmother. The girl eggs the gang into kidnaping her ten-year-old stepsister, and it is made to seem as if the Filthy Five will go as far as Leopold and Loeb. The rest of the play consists of sick witches while the stepmother is goaded Hit of her wits...
...Carlyle did -a panorama of "men in buff coats and breeches, with color in their cheeks, with passions in their stomachs, and the idioms, features and vitalities of very men." The romantic influence waned toward the end of the century, and most historians bowed to the barren discipline of Leopold von Ranke's Prussian school of historiography. Under Ranke's technical, "scientific" approach to history, absolute impartiality was imperative, and readability was sacrificed to research. The monograph, freighted with footnotes, was triumphant, and out of the graduate schools poured a profusion of dreary doctoral theses on subjects...