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...Second of Leopold Stokowski-Philadelphia Orchestra radio broadcasts over National Broadcasting network...
Mechanically as well as musically important was the program played by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and sponsored by Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery Co. Last year at his first Philco radio concert Conductor Stokowski was incensed because mere engineers were entrusted with the transmission of his music, had the power to spoil his surging crescendoes, his fragile pianissimos. The season over, he entered upon a series of experiments with National Broadcasting Co.'s head mechanics, commuted all summer between his Connecticut farm and Manhattan. The result is a device whereby he can do his own monitoring. He stands...
...12?Leopold Stokowski-Philadelphia Symphony's first of four radio concerts over National Broadcasting network...
...with one of the world's most noted symphony orchestras for 22 cents," was the sales-cry of backers of the Philadelphia Orchestra's first season of summer concerts nightly in shady Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park. For 24 concerts tickets sold at $5. Besides Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens, guest maestros will include Karl Krueger (also at the Hollywood Bowl) and Josef Alexander Pasternack. Albert Coates and Willem van Hoogstraten will alternate as conductors between Philadelphia and Manhattan (see below). From Berlin will come Ernst Knoch, famed conductor of Wagnerian music...
Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $8)-A particularly relevant recording of the ballet music recently given its first U. S. stage production (TIME, April 28). Stokowski's disc version preserves much of the naked intensity of the original, reveals ais complete mastery of the crazy, conflicting rhythms...