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...been three years since Conductor Rodzinski quit the New York Philharmonic-Symphony after a fiery row with the directors (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). The orchestra at first threatened to disintegrate under a series of guest conductors. But last year Leopold Stokowski and the Minneapolis Symphony's Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, sharing most of the season under Bruno Walter as musical adviser, began to pull it together again...
This season the same team minus Walter has worked it back to first-class shape. Last week came a decision. Leopold Stokowski, 67, informed the directors he would not be available next season; the board voted unanimously to make 53-year-old, egg-bald Dimitri Mitropoulos the Philharmonic's regular conductor...
...guard"-Bruno Walter, 73, Wilhelm Furtwangler, 63, Leopold Stokowski, 67-struck Boston trustees as a bit too old for the job. Another choice, says Cabot, "was to take a big gamble and pick a genius out of the pot. But we didn't see a genius among the younger...
Last week Manhattan audiences were listening to a new symphony that Russians had heard once, were not hearing any more. Leopold Stokowski. and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony performed the U.S. premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony. The first movement was dark but thematically appealing, the slow movement harmonically and rhythmically as dull as dishwater. The fast finale oompah-oompahed along in Russian style until about 30 bars from the end. Only then, for about a dozen bars, did listeners hear the powerfully dissonant Prokofiev they had known in the Scythian Suite and the first violin concerto. After...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Stokowski conducting Schumann's Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra in A Minor, with Pierre Fournier as guest soloist...