Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia elders whispered behind closed doors last week. Philadelphia's youth shouted its grievances in the sedate old Academy of Music (see col. 2). Conductor Leopold Stokowski made sad little speeches, appeared deeply hurt. Curtis Bok, president of the Orchestra Association, asked the entire orchestra board to resign. When the board objected, Mr. Bok and his very rich mother, who is the daughter of the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis, quit...
...reasons which Stokowski gave for his resignation were "deep-lying differences" with the board and its failure to appoint a suitable successor to Manager Arthur Judson. Stokowski's contract for this season expires Dec. 26. In his open letter to the board he said: "You have not been able to find and engage an executive director that is acceptable to the majority of you and to me, and so I have not been able to make the great number of detailed arrangements that would be absolutely essential for the coming season if it were to be carried...
...everyone knew that Miss Lape was Stokowski's choice for manager. Nor did the letter refer to the board's decision to offer the job to Benjamin ("Pep") Ludlow, a Philadelphia lawyer better acquainted with welfare work than with music. The end of Stokowski's statement was suitably regretful: "I am sad at the thought that I must now leave the Orchestra that I have worked so hard to help build up. ... I wish to pass over in silence and forget our deep-lying differences of opinion and remember "only the beauty and inspiration of the music we have made...
Early in January Stokowski will take his wife (spectacular Johnson & Johnson heiress) and his two daughters on a trip to the Orient where he intends to study Japanese and Chinese music. But few believed last week that he had definitely retired from the U. S. musical scene. Stokowski at 52 is as ambitious and hard-working as he was in his twenties when he played the organ in St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, saved his money so that he could hire orchestras abroad and start building up his fame as a conductor...
Thanks to Stokowski Philadelphia has had one of the world's great orchestras. And Philadelphians, knowing it, forgot last week that they had laughed at his publicity stunts, thought of him only as a fine musician who had always given them fine concerts. Hundreds of subscribers humbly petitioned him to change his mind, while his friend Curtis Bok announced that he had a plan which might ultimately solve the difficulties...