Word: stokowski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Who is Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski [TIME, Dec. 13] ? I was under the impression that Leopold Stokowski was married to Olga Samaroff...
...tickets to listen to them; the best jazz is made up on the spur of the moment, belongs in the jam session or the dance hall. Last week in Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly to get hot. The result was pretty tepid, but not their fault. William Grant Still, Negro composer of the Afro-American Symphony, had asked for it by writing a new Symphony in G Minor...
...create a type of symphony that is peculiarly a U. S. product. Jazz, or "Afro-American" symphonists prominent in recent seasons have included: Negro Composer William L. Dawson, who conducts the Tuskegee Choir, and whose Negro Folk Symphony No. 1 was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Stokowski three years ago; Otto Cesana, onetime staff composer at Manhattan's Radio City, whose two jazz-inspired symphonies have been broadcast by Radio Maestro Erno Rapee; 23-year-old Radio Arranger Morton Gould, whose Swing Symphonette is scheduled for performance later this season...
Honorary sponsors of the current tour which opens on Friday, December 24, include: Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch, conductor emeritus. New York Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra, John Barbirolli conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra, and Werner Jannsen, conductor and composer...
Divorced. Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski, 55, since 1912 conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, now also conducting and acting for films (Big Broadcast of 1937, 100 Men and a Girl); by Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Robert W. Johnson, surgical equipment manufacturer. Conductor Stokowski called rumors of a romance with Actress Greta Garbo "untrue and absurd...