Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year: the stage presentation, first in Philadelphia, then in Manhattan, of the most controversial composition; of the age, Igor Stravinsky's savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...
Magnificently gaunt last week was Stokowski's translation of Stravinsky's primitive, pornographic music - music which in its finale is tremendous enough truly to suggest an upheaval of the brutal earth. Lean, sallow Martha Graham did the sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that...
...Stokowski. It was fitting for Stokowski to be the first conductor in the U. S. to undertake the difficult stage productions of Le Sacre and Die Glückliche Hand. The unfurbished music of Le Sacre had its U. S. introduction by him in 1922. Schönberg's dissonances have fascinated Stokowski so strongly that he has persisted in presenting them despite the boos and hisses of audiences rarely given to such frank demonstration...
April 22-Performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps and Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand, by the League of Composers and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski; at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...
April 22-Performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre de Printemps and Schonberg's Die Gluckliche Hand, by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski; at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...