Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $8)-A particularly relevant recording of the ballet music recently given its first U. S. stage production (TIME, April 28). Stokowski's disc version preserves much of the naked intensity of the original, reveals ais complete mastery of the crazy, conflicting rhythms...
There is nothing in Stokowski's back-ground to explain his penchant for the new. He was conventionally raised in London, son of a Polish father and an Irish mother. He went to Queen's College, Oxford, thence to London where he became organist in St. James's Church in Piccadilly. It was as an organist that he came to the U. S. in 1905, 23 then and looking much as he does now-slender, pale-blue-eyed, seraphically blond. He played for three years at St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan, saved his money, returned...
...years he has been in Philadelphia, Stokowski has stayed just that -young, energetic, pliable. There have been changes in the man himself. He has laid aside Pianist Samaroff, taken to wife instead Evangeline Brewster Johnson, Manhattan socialite and mother of a second Stokowski daughter, Luba. From a simple, naive person he has changed to one who is autocratic, imperiously sure of his countless opinions on acoustics, lighting, radio, printing, painting, the habit of applause (TIME, Nov. 18). At a recent rehearsal he and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff almost came to blows over the tempo of a Rachmaninoff concerto concerning which Stokowski...
...Stokowski has permitted himself to develop prima donna tendencies but the public at large continues to encourage them -perhaps because, like a shrewd prima donna, he has stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange...
...amount of posing could have built and maintained for Stokowski the sound prestige which he has everywhere. This he owes to the great mental energy which years ago made him learn German, unaided, from a grammar; which on his recent Oriental tour led him to travel for weeks under the most primitive conditions to listen to native music unadorned; which enables him so to concentrate on his music that in his concerts he never needs a score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind...