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...famed conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra who retired at the close of the past season is (1 Dimitri Mitropoulos, 2 Arturo Toscamni, 3 Sergei Koussevitzky, 4 Eugene Ormandy, 5 Leopold Stokowski...
Night after Toscanini's farewell (see above), a tribute was paid him over the radio by Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who referred to the Italian maestro as "the supreme master of all conductors," mourned his departure as "an immense loss to our country." In the course of the Philadelphia Orchestra's tour (TIME, April 27), Stokowski was swelling his purse by appearing with his men on the Kraft's Cheese hour, which is sent out from Hollywood with Crooner Bing Crosby as master of ceremonies. Stokowski's first offering was Bach's Siciliana, which prompted Crosby...
...concerned with the "man with the baton" and not with the men under him. An excellent chapter on, baton exhibitionism does much to "debunk" some popular fallacies as well as to expose certain audience-minded conductors and their tricks to catch popular support. That Leopold Stokowski's Polish accent is a fake, that one conductor wears a corset at every concert to improve his figure, and that a French conductor changes batons in mid-symphonic stream all makes very entertaining if not instructive reading. The book concludes with a fairly complete biographical guide for reference...
...news four months ago when she discovered her stolen Guarnerius in the arms of an innocent deskmate who had borrowed it from a dealer who had unwittingly bought it from a thief (TIME, Dec. 23). No musician but a competent masseuse is pretty, blonde Miss Rondum, taken along by Stokowski to give him daily rubs...
Youthful Manager Alfred Reginald Allen, a shrewd peacemaker in Philadelphia since his appointment year ago, figures out the Orchestra's payroll which amounts to about $10,400 per week, exclusive of Stokowski's salary. Invaluable to the Orchestra is bald-headed Marshall ("Curley") Betz, who acts as librarian and general baggage master. Marshall Betz allied himself with the Philadelphia band the same day that Stokowski did 24 years ago, understands the conductor's and the players' moods. With the current tour Betz faced his stiffest undertaking. He is responsible for the many scores that...