Word: stokowski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor, will give 102 concerts, 78 of them in Philadelphia. There will be the regular series of 29 Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts, begin- ning Oct. 8 and ending April 30, and 10 Monday evening concerts and a double series of young people's concerts Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Out of town appearances will be in New York (10), Baltimore (5), Washington (3), Indianapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Among the soloists will be Moriz Rosenthai, Sergei Rachmaninov, Clara Haskil, Walter Gieseking, Efrem Zimbalist, Ruth Breton, Maurice Marechal, Lauritz Melchior...
...London, Eugene Goossens, British conductor of the Rochester (N. Y.) Symphony, declared recently: "I have no hesitation in saying that the Philadelphia Orchestra is the finest orchestra in the world today. . . . Stokowski stands supreme...
Next spring conductor Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Symphony will be heard in 18 European concerts, beginning at Paris, ending at London. "Everyone in Europe is dying to hear our Symphony," declared Philadelphia concert manager Arthur Judson last week...
This is what music-lovers have often wished would happen. This, in substance, was what happened last Friday. Philadelphians were "dumbfounded by Stokowski's satire." Some applauded. Some hissed. Forty odd first-row patrons walked out. At last a conductor had had the courage to give a Philadelphia audience a few hints on behavior...