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...Baroque organ of the Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone who is revolted, as I am, by Stokowski's lurid transcriptions and feverish performances of Bach may be glad to hear that there is still someone floating around who has the taste to transcribe early music and not emerge with something different from the original. Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C., has made...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ("Pa-thétique") (All American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50). Conductor Stokowski makes Tchaikovsky's well-recorded heaves, sighs and tears sound like super de luxe movie music...
...think Leopold Stokowski is kidding himself if he believes that Fantasia and others like it will be a means of bringing music to the masses. Music can be brought to the people only qua music. Diluting it, making it palatable with a sideshow, only takes attention away from it, and defeats its purpose. Certainly it cannot deepen the appreciation of music. Another point: If people get used to the glittery, theatrical quality of "Fantasound," the way it is projected from various wings in order to heighten effect, their ears are liable to be spoiled for natural musical sounds. But this...
Although Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice was not written as Christmas music, its buoyancy makes it a fitting holiday release. It is the sort of stuff Leopold Stokowski is good at, and his performance is full of Stokowskian gorgeousness, brilliance, and color, which at the same time sacrifices a good deal of Dukas's subtlety. Refreshing are the excerpts from Hansel and Gretel, that most magic of all operas. Barlow and the Columbia Broadcasting Orchestra play with feeling most of your favorites, including the dream music, on Columbia Records, and if I were to get any synthesis of any opera...
...Next day, after a repeat performance had drawn titters, hisses and shouts, Conductor Stokowski turned and gently chided the audience: "We don't ask you to like this music or to dislike it, but to give it a fair chance. I would like to thank those who received Schönberg with an open mind. They are in the majority. . . . The others, well, they can't help it. And perhaps," added Stokowski amid more titters, "they are right...