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...York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stokowski, Rodzinski, Walter, and Damrosch--at different times, of course. It has Heifetz, Rubenstein, Pinza, Piatigorsky, and other artists. It has Vaughn Monroe and Harry James. It has an insipid plot that runs contrapuntal to Beethoven's "Fifth" and Tehaikovsky's "Piano Concerto"--you know ... "Tonight we love...
...pieces--a prelude and allegro by Couperin and an organ fugue of Bach--were played in modern orchestrations--by Milhaud and Williams respectively. Music critics of good taste have for years been screaming at conductors like Stokowski and Koussevitsky not to distort Bach, but when the orchestration is done by composers of the calibre of Williams and Milhaud, the result is quite different. Like a great translation which becomes a work of art by its own merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E Flat Major; Griffes' The White Peacock; Siegmeister's Symphony. Guest: British Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Sometimes Amiable. O'Connell has his favorites and devotes most of his book to them: Rachmaninoff, Traubel, Monteux, Rubinstein, Stokowski, Koussevitzky. Of these for the most part he writes amiably, if not profoundly. He recalls the way Conductor Pierre Monteux won over the Philadelphia Orchestra at a rehearsal: "Gentlemen, I know that you know this piece backwards, but please do not let us play it that...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). The 105-year-old orchestra, starting its 18th year on CBS, with Leopold Stokowski conducting Bach's Ich Steh' mit Einem Fuss im Grabe; Brahms's Symphony No. 2 in D Major; Debussy's Nuages...