Word: stokowski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lamed in his right shoulder by a motor smash, an attack of neuritis and overmuch work, Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra departed his audience last week for an 18-month vacation. It was the end of his 15th season in the city of old families and new gossip. The auditorium crashed with more than perfunctory hand-clapping...
...Stokowski obviously did not wish to make a speech. He bowed and retreated a dozen times, feeling, perhaps, that the eloquence of 15 years, during which he had patiently fashioned the orchestra into an outstanding U. S. institution, could not be improved upon by extemporaneous phrases at a perfunctory moment. Or perhaps, knowing his people, he was heightening his effect...
Wagging his long silky locks, Mr. Stokowski discussed the audience. A balcony voice cried out, "Thank all of us!" but the silky locks wagged again. No, Mr. Stokowski was going to make distinctions. He looked up at the cheapest seats and said: "I have frequently ridden past the Academy two or three hours before a concert, and seen you standing there ... in cold, snow, sleet and rain. This shows you love music. . . . It has meant a lot to me. . . . Encouraged...
...locks wagged with stern finality. Conductor Stokowski bade Philadelphia goodbye "for a long time...
Said Dr. Barnes: "I shall be a humble and unworthy follower of great people like Stokowski, Mary Cassatt, Abbey, Sloan, Glackens and many others-who leave Philadelphia to get a breath of fresh air and never come back...