Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark suspicion. They were tired of guest conductors and this one was a pianist. But José Iturbi also used to be a boxer and he would not be glared down. He smiled a disarming smile and set the musicians to work with the authority of their own Stokowski.*Before the rehearsal was half over every last one of them knew, that the little Spaniard on the podium meant business...
...radio permits us to hear three unusually distinctive symphony concerts this week-end. Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra will broadcast this afternoon from 2.30 P.M. to 4 P.M. over WABC a wholesome programme of Beethoven and Bach: the Leonore Overture No. 3 and the violin concerto in D major with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist, and then the Fugue in G minor, Prelude in E flat minor, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. On Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by Jesus Maria Sanroma, will play the Mozart Symphony in E flat major...
...sound cameras that made it look like a Hollywood opening. Totally unable to see what the museum had to show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio, Leopold Stokowski, Henry Seidel Canby, Lord Duveen, Frank Sullivan, Katharine Hepburn, the young ladies of the Ballet Russe, Charles A. Lindbergh and most of the Rockefellers. Most critics went back next morning for a quieter look at the best exhibition of stage decor and costume ever held...
...this generation as a minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco Symphony until Dobrowen returns from guest-conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra during Leopold Stokowski's winter furlough...
...high in radio advertising was reached a month ago when Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...