Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describes. The picture is an abundant offering to those who spend their time and enthusiasm oscillating between the moviehouse and the radio. For besides the many personages dragged more or less directly into the plot, there are such purely gratuitous features as Benny Goodman and his orchestra, and Stokowski, the frenzied genius who seems to tell his musicians exactly what he wants with his violently contorted hands...
Blond, graceful Leopold Stokowski mounted the stand, back as guest conductor with the Orchestra he left last spring to go to Hollywood (TIME, Oct. 19). Conductor Stokowski took pains to make his first concert of the New York season glitter, made the new symphony wait till last. Devoted to Oriental instruments, he swelled the percussion section with a group of weird brass Oriental gongs, had them bong dolefully through his own transcription of music from Boris Godunov...
...Platt Golf Ball hour. But one is scarcely expected to be content with the inanitities of the one as parried by the harshness of the other. For recruits from the other come in troops. There are Jack Benny and Bob (Bazooka) Burns, Martha Ray and Benny Fields, and Leopold Stokowski doing some extraordinary things with his hands, which his orchestra turns into music...
Young Eugene Ormandy walked briskly into the Philadelphia limelight last week, hopped onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell...
...King Stokowski found relief from routine last spring during the Philadelphia Orchestra's cross-country tour (TIME, March 27). He then stopped long enough in Hollywood to appear in Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1937 (see >-67), along with Funnyman Jack Benny, the moronic radio team of Burns & Allen, Jazzman Kenny Goodman and his Swing Band. The Big Broadcast of 1937 had its Philadelphia premiere last week, but Conductor Stokowski's personal appearance was canceled at the request of the Musicians Union of which he is a member. -The world's three foremost orchestras...