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...comfortable seats of flag-draped Carnegie Hall. The 104 orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's opening of its 100th birthday season...
Another U.S. Youth Orchestra began to sprout last week.* In a Manhattan rehearsal room, under the guidance of a young, handsome, kinetic radio conductor, Raymond Paige, a band of 75 "Young Americans" made a merry din. The Young Americans are vowed to do for U.S. popular music what the Stokowski brood do for the longhairs, are moreover organized specifically to combat subversive ideas. Their sponsor is the League of Young Americans, Inc., whose aim is to rally the one-sixth of the U.S. population that is in its twenties...
...first: Leopold Stokowski's applecheeked All American Youth Orchestra, which last summer toured the U.S., Canada, Mexico, then temporarily disbanded...
...Symphony, most costly and prestigious orchestra of the U.S. air waves, last week got a successor to "The Old Man1' -Arturo Toscanini-who for four seasons had larruped great music out of it. The successor, as had been rumored (TIME, May 26), is petulant, platinum-blond Leopold Stokowski, also an old hand at symphonic larruping. But Stokowski is signed for only eight of the season's 28 NBC concerts. The rest will probably be conducted by guests chosen from the stick-wavers, good and indifferent, who have spelled The Old Man in the past. This season the Symphony...
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Cellist Benar Heifetz, Pianists Jeanne Behrend and Sylvan Levin; Victor; 6 sides; $3.50). Slick virtuoso performance of banal zoological portraits-elephants, cuckoos, tortoises, pianists, critics, the famed "dying" swan...