Word: leopolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Manhattan concertgoers departed from performances by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall last fortnight, most of their talk ran on the "spectacle" Conductor Leopold Stokpwski had provided. Hoping, he said, to enhance the beauty of his music, and free the ear from distraction by the eye, he had hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show...
...premiers* and six Indian potentates,† of the might and glory that are Britannia's. The scene was "No. 10 Downing Street," famed residence of easy, genial, astute Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain. But the fiery speaker, "The Pocket Hercules" who thundered Empire, was the Rt. Hon. Leopold C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies. He it was who succeeded in vitalizing with emotional cohesion the third post-War Imperial Conference last week...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arthur Brisbane, General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Hugh Walpole, General Pershing, Leopold Stokowski and many another were invited to a reception in Her Majesty's honor at the Ritz, Manhattan. Of the 800 persons presented, a few kissed the royal hand and a few ran around to the end of the line after being presented and were presented again. Most shook hands with the Queen...
...rapturous perfection from the gloom of old Carnegie Hall. Even a tone poem about a Prophet, in phrases and measures twisted to tortuous futurity by one Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing, became articulate; for in the gloom was hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged...
...Academy of Music one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer William Schroeder, difficult, cleverly constructed, tedious; Dukas...