Word: stokowskied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he has a fairly solid repertory in recital music and some grand opera (he once sang Modernist Alban Berg's Wozzek under Stokowski), Eddy knows on which side his short'nin' bread is buttered. His nightclub and concert audiences would rather hear Short'nin' Bread than Schubert. And as Eddy himself sings in his parody: "Mammy's little Nelson loves short'nin' bread...
...native Italy to his Medium and Consul in the past three seasons, Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti tried again last week; he staged his little Christmas TV opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, in Florence's Pergola Theater. Standing in the wings, Menotti felt reasonably confident this time: Leopold Stokowski conducted with a sure hand, a dressy international audience admired the handsome settings, stopped the show after a flashing dance sequence, and cheered up ten curtain calls for the cast at the end. Even the stage electrician admitted he liked...
Conductors' behavior in the wings, says Totten, is often as idiosyncratic as their gestures on the podium: Boston's legendary Karl Muck would never see visitors after a performance; Serge Koussevitzky saw all comers. Leopold Stokowski makes his escape right after his last bow-"through the basement, if necessary...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Children's music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, and a feature story based on LIFE'S The World We Live In series...
Roger Goeb: Symphony No. 3 (Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra; Victor). A busy modern score that has some attractive lyricism as well as its share of noisy climaxes; in a fine performance by Stokowski...