Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violinist before she became the Metropolitan Opera's prize coloratura. The day Mrs. Bok proudly distributed diplomas her son Curtis was elected president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, successor to the late Alexander Van Rensselaer. Young Curtis Bok is quiet, well-liked. And he shares with Conductor Leopold Stokowski a passion for all things Russian...
...When Curtis Publishing Co.'s dividends were high Mrs. Bok spent a good $500,000 per year on her musical institute, gave hard-pressed students a monthly stipend besides tuition, financed many a concert tour. The Curtis faculty has included such famed musicians as Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Moriz Rosenthal, the late great Leopold Auer...
Kykunkor (Witch Woman) closed for a few days but last week it reopened uptown in the smart little Chanin Auditorium. Best seats at the Unity Theatre had cost 35?. At the Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less...
...Chicago Symphony. But before the old man's death he had taken the orchestra out on the road, satisfied himself that Thomas was right. Conductor Stock, now 61, suffers from sciatica and arthritis. But when the other big league conductors-Koussevitzky of Boston, Toscanini of New York, Stokowski of Philadelphia-hurry off for vacations after the formal winter season, Stock stays on duty to take his band to Cornell in Iowa, to the Festival at Ann Arbor. Usually thereafter he sails for Germany to bathe at the spas, hunt up new scores. But this year, for the sake...
...maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell for $6500, was recently purchased by Leopold Stokowski, of the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra...