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...orchestra "sound"; Willem Mengelberg, (N. Y. Philharmonic) famed for the passionate warmth of his music; Paul Felix Weingartner, (Vienna) who loves the "classica"; Karl Muck, (Hamburg) noted for his tone coloring; Frederick Stock, who has made the Chicago Orchestra one of the three best in the world; Leopold Stokowski, (Philadelphia Symphony) the "virtuoso" among conductors: these men are widely considered to outrank...
During the last three weeks, neuritis attacks have crippled Leopold Stokowski and made it necessary for Assistant Arthur Rodzinski to conduct the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Last week in Carnegie Hall, he had enough of enforced idleness, made up his mind to disappoint his audience no longer. His right arm in a sling, he gritted his teeth, picked up the baton with his left, conducted the Kaminski "Concerto Grossi" single-and-left-handed. The pain was too great. He had to retire. The audience extended him an ovation. His former wife, Olga Samaroff, able music critic of the New York Evening...
...free the ear from distraction by the eye, he had hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that by making himself a cynosure, Dr. Stokowski had spoiled his hoped-for effect...
Last week, Dr. Stokowski issued a statement: ... "I now see clearly that until we can have the necessary equipment of an especially constructed stage, no progress can be made. . . . The necessary stage arrangements for sinking the orchestra to a lower level. . . and invisible, do not exist in present concert halls. . . . This is the ideal I am working for. Will anyone help me to attain...
...week ran -it, but no Morris Gest, or other enterprising producer, no Otto Kahn or other Maecenas, not even Patron Idea-man Edward W. Bok came forward to help Dr. Stokowski. People of the maddeningly practical turn of mind suggested that the ardent artist persuade his audiences to close the"ir eyes...