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Last winter platinum-haired Maestro Stokowski announced that he would form an orchestra of young Americans that could stand up to the best symphonies in the country. Musicasters thought he was just huffing & puffing. But Stokowski meant it, every syllable...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, dictatorial Maestro Arturo Toscanini, nearing the end of a triumphal tour of South America, called his orchestra for a morning rehearsal on July 4. In the empty theatre he led his surprised men through The Star-Spangled Banner, waved a cheery greeting, dismissed them...
Next fall cologist Dick Harlow, maestro of the spinner cycle offense, will face the most ambitions schedule over undertaken by a Harvard football team when he sends out his Crimson clad eleven to do battle with six of the ranking teams of the East, the mighty Wolverines of Michigan, and up-and-coming Amherst College...
...carry on the performance, the orchestra as one man boosted a 19109-year-old cellist to the conductor's stand. He led his men through the whole opera (Aida) from memory. That performance, 54 years ago, was Conductor Arturo Toscanini's first. Last week white-haired Maestro Toscanini made ready to play his first return engagement in Rio. With the NBC Symphony he sailed on a South American tour, to play four concerts in Rio, two in Sao Paulo, eight in Buenos Aires, two in Montevideo...
...expects to make no money on its prestigious tour, but last fortnight, within six hours after ticket sales began, all the concerts were sold out. To one U. S. maestro, this was not unmixed good news. Platinum-mopped Leopold Stokowski began raising an "All American Youth Orchestra" last winter, planned also to make a South American tour-for good will. Since last spring, Stokowski has professed to be undaunted by Toscanini's rival junket, has apparently not been bothered by the prospect that South Americans, always sensitive to any sort of patronizing from the North, might be averse...