Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced on the Soviet stage. Last week this edition was brought out by the Oxford University Press and announced for its first performance outside of Russia by Leopold Stokowski, enterprising maestro of the Philadelphia Orchestra (see below). He plans performances in Philadelphia and Manhattan with the assistance of the Mendelssohn Choir and eminent soloists to be announced. Moussorgsky wrote in 1872: "While I was writing Boris, I was Boris." Revival for Boris thus meant resurrection for the "debauched, defeated...
Napoleon said the baton of a field marshal was hidden in the knapsack of every soldier. Leopold Stokowski, Little Corporal of orchestra directors, believes the baton of a conductor may be concealed in the sleeve of each and every man in his famed Philadelphia Orchestra. Following the resignations last week of assistant conductor Artur Rodzinski, who goes to the Coast as leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of concert master Mischa Mischakoff, who blurted that he was leaving because of Stokowski's "rude and unfair treatment"; and of David Dubinsky, leader of the second violins, who deserted for reasons...
Curiouser and curiouser are Leopold Stokowski's programs. Visiting Manhattan in the wake of the great, departing Toscanini, he led his Philadelphians-instrumentally the world's finest-through what many a critic pronounced "the poorest orchestral program of the year." Three U. S. works were introduced: Prelude to a Drama, by Sandor Harmati, conductor of the Omaha Orchestra; Study in Sonority (for 40 violins-title by Stokowski), by Wallingford Riegger, New York pedagog; Indian Dances, by Frederick Jacobi, of California...
...dismay of sensitive folk and the delight of the pugnacious, the audience hissed, hissssed. Ironically, Conductor Stokowski motioned his men to rise, to receive an ovation never given. The few faithful who remained after the interval heard Mozart's G minor Symphony and the Third Leonore Overture...
...Stokowski is said never to read the newspapers, to disdain his public. Nevertheless, he scheduled for his next and last New York concert, a sure-fire Bach-Wagner program...