Word: stokowskied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angelo stiffens and begins to wave his arms and hands like a Stokowski working over the climax of Death and Transfiguration, while the patient describes his sensations. This lasts from ten minutes to half an hour. Then the wizard slumps back in a sweat and pulls himself together to collect a fee of $16 (but only, he insists, from those who can afford it). With identical treatments, D'Angelo claims to be able to cure "all psychic or nervous disorders," such as paralysis, phobias, migraine, insomnia and loss of sight, hearing or speech. Since most such cases are hysterical...
...Orleans' Municipal Auditorium, as the audience sat listening to Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski lead the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo, the unmistakable Dixieland beat of a jazz orchestra scorched through from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later...
Critics thought the sounds were striking or amusing, reserved judgment on musical values. But they saw the point of Conductor Leopold Stokowski's introductory remarks: the conventional composer usually has to wait for somebody else to play his music, and it might be to his advantage to work, like the painter, directly on the materials of sound-the tape recorder, for instance...
That happened to Goodman four years ago, when the Philharmonic, playing under Leopold Stokowski in Chicago, swung into Arcady Dubensky's energetic Fugue for Eighteen Violins. The trouble was that the whole percussion section, which had no part in the violin piece, began playing the next piece on its music racks-Khacha-turian's Symphony No. 2-which opens with a crashing, jangling blast. "We raised the roof," says Goodman. "The plaster fell." Stokowski allowed them to hammer away happily for eight whole bars before they skidded to a stop. It has never happened again...
...horseshoe-shaped swimming pool, Lucite-legged chairs, hand-painted draperies, and a radio-controlled main gate;* and Movie Producer William Perlberg's cozier ($250,000) rambler, with swimming pool, projection room, Lucite wastebaskets and hip-high combination shelf and hearthstone. Other László clients: Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, Freeman (Amos 'n' Andy) Gosden, Barbara Hutton, Sonja Henie, Hollywood Director William Wyler...