Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landscapes of India and in the alleyways of cities of Ceylon, music can be heard. To most occidental ears such music sounds queer and ugly, as the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra would sound queer to the inhabitants of the far places. Yet oriental music did not sound ugly to Leopold Stokowski, famed insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia, Leopold Stokowski...
Last week when he arrived, alert music-listeners were in a stew of excitement. They longed to see Stokowski and to ask him to play for them the wild notes of songs which western ears had never heard before. "What have you brought us?" they cried; whereupon Leopold Stokowski showed them three Javanese gongs, sacred objects which made a pleasant noise when struck. These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java...
...exceedingly able judges who, if none of the offerings are good enough to get the prize, will award the money to the "development of creative musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Friedrich...
...Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check for $10,000. Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there was Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of the Graphic Sketch Club; Charles Custis Harrison, onetime provost of the University of Pennsylvania; Samuel Yellin, master ironworker; Dr. Chevalier...
...Prince was a project to interpret for Occidental instruments of music the piercing quarter, eight and sixteenth tones beloved of Japanese musicians. Prince Tokugawa, founder of the first Japanese Symphony Orchestra, was not slow to summon tuneful minions who entertained his guest. Attentive were the ears of Pole Stokowski. Later he said to correspondents: "I am confident of finding some way in which the tones which are embodied in Oriental music can be interpreted for Occidental...