Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose the great Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each day by dousing his head in a bucket of icy water. There...
When Leopold Stokowski flicked his baton in Philadelphia 20 years ago, he had no player more responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his own commanding stick. He had returned to his oldtime colleagues as an experienced, full-fledged conductor. But he had done more than achieve a conductor's technique. Despite Depression he had succeeded in planting an orchestra in Washington, D. C., making it grow and flower...
...Manhattan last week towering Otto Klemperer marched before the Philharmonic Symphony, thrust his baton into the air and drew forth the overture to a new music season. Next day in Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski was back on his spotlit chromium podium. Rehearsals were under way in Boston under Sergei Koussevitzky, in Cleveland under Artur Rodzinski. Soon orchestras all over the U. S. will be in full stride...
...Sunday night broadcasts and Ford has outlined a budget almost as big. Ambitious tour of the season will come in the spring when the Philadelphia Orchestra will play in 30 cities, sponsored by RCA-Victor Co. Rumor persists that when his concerts are over Conductor Leopold Stokowski intends to act in a cinema portraying the life of his hero, Richard Wagner...
...Minneapolis & St. Paul, socialites worked hard & long to get pledges of some $60,000 for another season under popular Conductor Eugene Ormandy. Philadelphians rubbed their hands with satisfaction knowing that fair-haired Leopold Stokowski would definitely return for twelve weeks next season to conduct "our eloquent and unique orchestra." But this year's deficit was nearly $250,000. In an effort to avert a similar deficit next season, new Manager Alfred Reginald Allen announced that next season's subscriptions would be offered on an installment plan. 20% down, the rest payable in eight monthly installments. Whether...