Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wagner: Overture, Venusberg Music and Prelude to Act 3 from "Tannhauser" (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Stokowski at his thunderbolt-hurling best. The Philadelphians noodle magnificently...
Back to the U. S. the Swedish liner Kungsholm brought Greta Louvisa Gustafsson, alias Garbo. More approachable than usual, after her summer in Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that...
...from Philadelphia last week was the symphony's other co-conductor, sad-eyed Leopold Stokowski, resting in Beverly Hills, Calif, after a less industrious but equally eventful European summer in the company of Greta Garbo. Since Great Conductor Stokowski's blow-off with the symphony directors in 1934, when he relinquished his post as music director, he and co-Conductor Otmandy have been nominal equals...
After Mr. Ormandy's return, the directors announced: 1) that Conductor Stokowski had signed up for eleven concerts next spring, and 2) that "in recognition of musical achievement" the post of music director would be revived for Conductor Ormandy. For happy Violinist Ormandy this meant more pay, official confirmation that he is Philadelphia's first fiddle...
Borodin: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens, from Prince Igor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 4 sides). Stokowski at his brilliant best...