Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approach of Spring, and the happy dispersion of musico-financial troubles (TIME, April 21, May 12, 19) seem to have infected Conductor Stokowski with more than a mild dash of gaiety, boisterousness, even vulgar abandon. Stokowski has started a hilarious military band in Philadelphia...
Rodman Wanamaker, patron, Maecenas of modern U. S. Art, presented a huge evening of endemic tone-fancies in the Grand Court of the John Wanamaker store. The soloists were Marie Sundelius of the Metropolitan Company, soprano, and Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who appeared on this occasion as an orator. The resources of the great Wanamaker organ, a military band, and a large chorus were also called into play...
...feature of the event, the most ambitious in Philadelphia's "Music Week," was a ringing performance of John Philip Sousa's latest composition, a cantata called The Last Crusade. Fortunately for all concerned, it contained a goodly sprinkling of genuine, new, Sousaesque marches. These marches, according to Stokowski's speech, represent "the real spirit of America in a dignified and intellectual manner." At any rate, they reached the heart of the audience, even though it was seated in between erstwhile counters of dress goods, tableware, notions...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski is happy. His band finally saved, his job secure, his men merrily signing their new contracts, he will go to Paris for the Summer. And in October his great jubilee season (the orchestra's 25th) will open as planned...
Unfortunately, much of the effect of this grotesquerie was lost in the vast open spaces of Carnegie Hall. It had proved far more exciting when it was first given in the small Vanderbilt Theatre last December by the International Composers' Guild. Stokowski's men had greater success with their conductor's stirring arrangement of the sweeping Bach Passacaglia. The Philadelphians ended on that note of grandiose exaltation...