Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attributes of the mechanical age, neither steel works nor jazz. It was music made for beauty's sake, music suggested by the old Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably. Violinist Efrem Zimbalist wrote it. Conductor Leopold Stokowski played it first in Philadelphia. In Manhattan next day he put it on the same program with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin has the purchased monopoly, also given its U. S. premiere last week, by the Boston Symphony. Few great virtuosi...
Widow Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who has paid a stiff price for the Philadelphia company's enterprise, had nothing to say. But Musical Director Leopold Stokowski declared authoritatively that both. the Philadelphia Grand Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra would come to Radio City for guest performances while continuing to give their regular seasons at home. Exchange visits would be arranged with "whatever company is installed in Radio City," he said, perhaps with the Chicago Civic Opera too. To allay one practical difficulty of such a scheme, stage dimensions will be the same in Radio City's opera house...
...Arturo Toscanini conduct lately were not surprised when it was announced last week that he would be unable to finish his midwinter engagement with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. Since early in the summer Toscanini has suffered excruciating pain in his right arm. Like many a conductor before him (Leopold Stokowski, Willem Mengelberg, Richard Strauss), he has a sub-deltoid bursitis or "glass arm," an affliction which orchestra leaders and schoolboys get from the same cause. Schoolboys get it from throwing pebbles or crabapples instead of baseballs, conductors from putting too much energy into their waving of a light, non-resistant...
...difficult to obtain on short notice. The management thought of Ormandy, his good stewardship in radio (Dutch Masters, Jack Frost hours), his occasional successes at summer concerts in Philadelphia and Manhattan. A bit bewildered by his good fortune, Ormandy set out for Philadelphia, conducted so expertly that even Stokowski addicts were enthusiastic. Minneapolis, hearing of his achievement, immediately summoned him to substitute this week for Belgian Henri Verbrugghen, also ailing. Minneapolis will find him as Philadelphia did, a diligent, painstaking musician, free from mannerisms. His thin, blond hair and light blue eyes are perfect counterparts of a self-effacing personality...
...among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time this week) and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.* Famed Contralto Margaret Matzenauer will be one of this year's singers. Conductors will be Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Alberto Bimboni, high-priced Leopold Stokowski...