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...best symphony orchestras are not necessarily the long-established veterans -and no one likes to prove the point more often than veteran Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Since he left his post as principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1936, he has organized more front-rank orchestras than some conductors face in a lifetime. Now 80, Stokowski is still up to his old tricks: in its third concert of the season last week, Stokowski's newly organized American Symphony Orchestra demonstrated to a cheering audience that it rivals the very best...
...loud noises and sudden silences-Daniel Pinkham's Catacoustical Measures-to test echoes and reverberation periods. To simulate the presence of a live audience, seats were filled with pointy-headed fiber glass dummies eerily resembling hooded KKKlans-men, while such fine musical ears as Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski and Erich Leinsdorf prowled the corridors, listening critically as technicians shifted the position of acoustical panels suspended from the ceiling to correct defects. Final verdict: O.K. for sound...
...final schedule for the HRO's month-and-a-half long tour is nearing completion. Confirmation from Stokowski and Kennedy, while not assured, is likely, according to Mexican, tour manager Albert K. Webster...
...Stokowski decides to conduct one of the orchestra's 26 projected concerts, the event will take place August 10 in the acoustically perfect ball court of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Yucatan. Webster related yesterday that Stokowski, after testing the acoustics of the rectangular ball court many years ago, said: "I hope I never die before I can conduct here." A Mexican committee is inviting Stokowski to conduct...
...three years after the young musician won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Orchestra dismissed all of its German players, among them a 'cellist. Leopold Stokowski happened to hear Eisenberg play, and engaged him. He was just fifteen, easily the youngest person ever to play in an American orchestra. "I had to lie about my age to get a union card," muses Eisenberg. "I said I was seventeen...