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Somewhat in the manner of Leopold Stokowski, who is constantly telling his audiences how to deport themselves. Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch last week suggested that people wear dark clothing for the performance of Bach's Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew given in Philadelphia with stage and choristers draped in black. Philadelphians take conductors' orders with remarkable grace. Most of them did as little Mr. Gabrilo-witsch asked. But one Ellen Winsor of Haverford objected, said that Gabrilo- witsch was out-churching the churches, that rather than waste time considering their raiment people would do better...
...strict design and his many novel effects (in one scene he introduces an accordion, harmonica and guitar), there is the same savage pity that Büchner had for his soldier. One European critic has called Wozzeck the greatest opera since Pellèas et Mèlisande. Stokowski must also be impressed, for his avidity for perfection appears to be even greater than usual. He is using his own 100-piece Philadelphia Orchestra, sets by Robert Edmond Jones and, thanks to Mrs. Bok's open purse, has already had well over 100 rehearsals...
March 19-American première of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck, presented by Philadelphia Grand Opera Company; at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra rehearsed the Harvard Glee Club for two and one half hours yesterday afternoon in Paine Hall...
...trip to Cambridge in order to work with a chorus from the Glee Club, which is preparing Stravinski's "Oedipus Rex" for two performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, on April 21 and 22. Shortly after the finish of the practice Stokowski left for Philadelphia. He was the guest of Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Glee Club, during his stay here...