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...Last week one of proud Toscanini's concerts with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra was attended by proud Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony, who went backstage to congratulate Toscanini during intermission. The Italian is nearsighted. He peered blankly at his famed Polish visitor, who said...
...Leopold Stokowski, proud conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, last week turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...
...tremendous ovation. Last year would have been Conductor Gabrilowitsch's tenth in Detroit. Instead he took leave of absence and guest-conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. This year he will go again to Philadelphia for the few mid-season weeks when Leopold Stokowski takes his holiday. Substitutes then in Detroit will be his able Assistant Conductor Victor Kolar and Guests Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari...
Like the Italian Toscanini, the Russian Stokowski chose German music. Like Toscanini with his Beethoven, Stokowski has always had unseen powers over Brahms' First Symphony. Brahms then, followed by worthy excerpts from the Wagnerian Ring made of his first concert a surging translucent affair...
Strange and unfamiliar to Stokowski must have seemed the Academy of Music two days later as he walked through its sombre emptiness to the stage. Strange and unfamiliar must he have appeared to his orchestra-members, in his brown baggy golf clothes instead of his usual impeccable black. For it was no rehearsal, even though the hushed silence which greeted him was only that of tiers upon tiers of vacant seats. Then with strains of Bach and Mozart he gave a program unique for him, his first before a microphone and unseen listeners, his first to be paid...