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...knocked all of a heap by his amazing appearance. When I said that 1 wanted to paint him, his wife told me that he refused to sit to anyone." The obdurate nonsitter was Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The painter: Taos, N.M.'s Dorothy Brett, artist, writer, former British peeress, sister of the White Rani of Sarawak (British Borneo), bosom friend of the late British novelist, D. H. Lawrence. This week Painter Brett proved that she could paint Conductor Stokowski whether he posed or not. Her exhibition of 27 paintings in the Santa Fe Museum featured some bombers in level...
Most of the eleven Brett Stokowskis are luminous, elongated impressions in which Conductor Stokowski seems to be swooning under water. In Leopold Stokowski Conducting Parsifal there is only a Stokowski-like manifestation, a sickle moon, blank planes of periwinkle blue, and a cometlike effulgence. In Liebestod No. 2 (Love Death), a pale Stokowski wears a rose-colored nimbus which also haloes his cupped, coaxing hands...
Paris police force, was purely coincidental. George AntheiFs Fourth Symphony, elegantly broadcast by Leopold Stokowski and the N.B.C. Symphony, was easily the loudest and liveliest symphonic composition to turn up in years. It was also testimony that Composer Antheil, once the No. i bad boy of U.S. musical dadaism, had come home to solid schmaltz...
Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, anathematized jazz. Said he: "With so many homes broken as a result of the family head serving in the armed forces, parental supervision is lacking, and this type of music leads to war degeneracy." For the rebuttal up rose Leopold Stokowski: "Some foreigners do not understand how rich the U.S. is in folk music. . . ." Said Frank Sinatra (whose worshipers had been labeled "pitiful cases" by Rodzinski): "Nuts! . . . After all, I grew up in a jazz craze, and I did all right...
Olga Samaroff Stokowski, concert pianist, ex-wife of Conductor Leopold, proved herself the perfect wartime dinner guest: she brought along not only her ra tion book but also her cook...