Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose powder-puff head evolves enough publicity stunts for a Hollywood jazzster, last week got into the newspapers by suddenly calling to his valet during a rehearsal: "Teddy, bring me my horse!" Valet Teddy trotted out with a wooden buck draped in a blanket and fitted with a shiny new English saddle. Stokowski's men tittered as Trombonist Charles Gusikoff started to p1ay "Horses, Horses, Horses...
...Philadelphia two months ago a great outcry followed Leopold Stokowski's announcement that at the next Youths' Concert he would play Soviet Russia's ''Internationale." The American Legion publicly protested. Broker Francis Ralston Welsh, rabid antiCommunist, called Stokowski a Red. William Curtis Bok, the Orchestra Association's vice president, tried to smooth things over by saying that he thought Stokowski would change his mind, that "it was probably just one of those things that pop into his head...
...last week Stokowski did not change his mind. He played the "Internationale"' and invited the youthful audience (aged 13 to 25) to sing it. Some stood up and hummed haltingly along. But no tempest broke. Stokowski had outsharped his critics by having the words printed in French because, he said, he had been "unable to find an adequate English translation." The translation which Stokowski found unsatisfactory: Arise, ye prisoners of starvation...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski's worst enemies grant him his tremendous enterprise, his gift for dramatically making the most of a bad situation. Stokowski's hand was seen in the promise to give new as well as standard operas, in the report that there would be double-cast experiments presenting comely actors on the stage while the voices of expert singers would come from behind the scenes by electrical transmission. Such ventures require money and Stokowski's Orchestra has had trouble enough paying its routine way this season. Most Philadelphians felt that they had Mary Louise Curtis...
...each phrase and nuance. First thing he did was to reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very man." He imitated perfectly the sounds he wanted from the English horn, the double bass, the flute...