Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several concerts passed this autumn in which Conductor Leopold Stokowski did not once undertake to discipline his Philadelphia Orchestra subscribers. One of his concerts last week championed ultra-modern composers, who always seem to send Conductor Stokowski into a highly sensitive state. Last week was no exception. During the curious sounds listed as a Symphony for Small Orchestra by Anton Webern, someone sneezed. Coughs and chuckles were instantly let loose. But Conductor Stokowski did not stay to hear them. His arms fell abruptly to his sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence...
...estate, beautifying. Self-conscious pride has enriched the language with the fancy names "mortician," "public relations counsel," "realtor," "beautician." A profession which has never needed a prop to elegance and dignity is Music, yet last week there came a musician's lament. A letter to proud Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra from sensitive Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony was published. Excerpt...
Observers hastily looked at copies of the latest prospectus of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In it appears the name of Leopold Stokowski, "musical director." But the list of directors for the coming season, including Musical Director Stokowski, appears under the plain, old- fashioned heading, "Conductors...
First to change its mind had been Columbia. Recently it announced a series of six concerts during the winter by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Leopold Stokowski: one hour and three-quarters each. Then, last month, it put on the air the first international festival rebroadcast. From the Festspielhaus at Salzburg, with some degree of success, came the first act of Rossini's Barber of Seville* This month CBS scheduled a one-hour performance of Mozart's mighty Requiem from the Salzburg Cathedral. After half an hour of howling and squawking (thunderstorms) it was taken from...
From a world quick to conclude that Art had been insulted, came expressions of indignation. Students at the Bologna Conservatory of Music shouted Evviva Toscanini! and were at once clapped into jail. In Berlin, Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra cried: "The Fascists will kill that man yet. He is so sensitive that he will never be able to stand the shock!" Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony cancelled a contract to conduct a June festival at La Scala in Milan, called the incident ''an insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich...