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Last July, before Maestro Leopold Stokowski took his All American Youth Orchestra on a good-will tour of South America, he let it sound off to hot-weather audiences in Baltimore, Atlantic City, Manhattan. The So-odd youngsters (with a backbone of 18 Philadelphia veterans) sounded good, but some critics reserved judgment. Last week, back from the tour, Dr. Stokowski with the Youth Orchestra put on a show in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall itself and put their reservations to rout. Concertgoers were somewhat startled to see the orchestra framed in a brash, blue acoustical shell, lit by brash, blue...
...Maestro Stokowski brought home 300 records which he made of South American music, among them some tunes played by Indian witch doctors. At Stokowski's request, 150 Indians were taken to Rio de Janeiro by busses, from which they emerged mother-naked. Ensued a lively discussion about whether their instruments were clothing enough. The answer was no. So Youth Orchestra members rustled up some garments...
...renowned Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street-whose members have consecrated their lives to the preservation of the music of the Three Bs-Barrelhouse, Boogie-woogie and the Blues. Present with us on this solemn occasion: Mademoiselle Dinah Diva Shore, who starts fires by rubbing two notes together; Maestro Paul Laval and his ten termite-proof wood winds; Dr. Gino Hamilton, as our chairman and intermission commentator; and Dr. Henry Levine, with his Dixieland Little Symphony of eight men and no-Period. As the Society's special guest: Professor Louis Kievman, the long-haired musician who plays...
...superstition of native musicians that the playing of Saint-Saens' ghoulish Danse Macabre spelled death for one of its performers. Later Violist Jacques Tushinsky was struck and killed by a bus. Not until the orchestra was on its way back to the U. S. last week was Maestro Toscanini informed of the death. Whereupon the white-haired, 73-year-old conductor burst into tears, refused all nourishment but fruit juice...
Percussion orchestras mean little in the life of the man in the street. For Maestro John, Cage they are the medium of a rich and exciting fine art, shot through with potentialities. Purpose of his music, explains Cage, is the exploration of sounds and rhythms which were previously considered nonmusical. He hopes some day to make use of electrical instruments capable of playing sliding tones, get any desired sounds in any desired rhythm. For the present, Percussionist Cage contents himself with "dragons' mouths," wood blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles...