Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Opera asked him to be its first violin. Two years later he lit out of Russia, went to Manhattan, placed first in a contest of 500 violinists and got a chance to solo with the Philharmonic. Walter Damrosch made Mischakoff concertmaster of the New York Symphony, now defunct. Stokowski took him to Philadelphia, whence Frederick Stock got him for Chicago...
...money gave Philadelphia the Curtis Institute of Music. She is still its Lady Bountiful, hires the best teachers available, gives free tuition to all students, monthly stipends to those who need them. Far beyond Philadelphia Mrs. Bok is known as the woman who paid for Stokowski's famed productions there of Wozzeck and Oedipus Rex in 1931, his H. P. the next year. In 1934 she wrote the checks for Fritz Reiner's beautiful, expensive Tristan, his Rosenkavalier that critics called the best U. S. opera of the season. Last week operagoers from all over the East headed...
Conductor Rodzinski has made unusual progress since he arrived in the U. S. twelve years ago. In 1924 Leopold Stokowski discovered him in Warsaw, a quiet young man of 30 who was conducting at the opera house instead of practicing the law his parents had intended him for. Next year he went to Philadelphia with Stokowski, was assistant conductor there for four years. He spent four more conducting in Los Angeles until in 1933 the Los Angeles Orchestra began to have trouble. William Andrews Clark Jr., who had supported the orchestra for 14 years, announced he could do so only...
...ardent passages Rodzinski still likes to put down his baton and shape the music with his bare hands, a habit he picked up from Stokowski. From Stokowski too he may well have learned the flexible beats and ingenious phrasing that made many concertgoers consider him the ablest conductor they had heard this season. Others felt he exaggerated certain passages beyond all reason, such as the second movement of the Sibelius Second which he takes more slowly than any other conductor alive...
...stands for horsepower. Chavez tried therein to contrast the luxurious, banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where...