Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehearsal one day last week Philadelphia Orchestramen wondered if Leopold Stokowski were ill. His mood was strangely nostalgic. Suddenly he interrupted the players, thanked them for helping him forget his many worldly troubles. That afternoon the meeting of the orchestra board was no scrappier than usual and directors went home with easy minds. But next morning when they picked up their newspapers, they read that Leopold Stokowski had resigned as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Philadelphia was shocked. Stokowski had been there for 22 years. He had given Philadelphia its musical name and always something to talk about. For many of his subscribers he had been too full of antics. Many were resentful when he arrogantly scolded them for applauding, arriving late or failing to appreciate some ultra-modern screeching. But Stokowski was not out for publicity when he made his peerless transcriptions of Bach. For years he presented them anonymously. He took infinite pains with the Youth Concerts and gave his services. No one was surprised when he received the first Philadelphia Award...
...Mexican Indian, a onetime cowboy and an Alabama Negro who used to be a bootblack composed the bulk of the music which Conductor Leopold Stokowski brought from Philadelphia to Manhattan one night last week. The fair-haired Stokowski was proving that his orchestra gives an occasional hearing to untried native composers...
...Rachmaninoff best as a pianist, a career forced on him by exile and the loss of his fortune. But in his quiet unpublicized way Rachmaninoff has gone on writing music. In Baltimore last week a Rapsodie which he composed last summer was given its premiére by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Because Rachmaninoff was there to solo, the audience was completely satisfied with the oldtime combination of pianistic glitter and cello-sweet sadness...
...When Stokowski turned operatic and conducted Alban Berg's Wozzeck (TIME, March 30, 1931) a spotlight magnified the shadow of his hands on the theatre's ceiling. *Curtis Bok is no "angel." Hut during his lifetime his father, Edward Bok, gave $239,000 to the Orchestra's Endowment Fund...