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...worthwhile to call to attention at this time the visit of the Philadelphia Orchesra under the well-publicized Leopold Stokowski to Boston on April 14. The advance sale is so heavy that those who desire tickets had best write in to Aaron Richmond's office in Boston without delay...
When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
...Minneapolis Eugene Ormandy has developed steadily, proved himself a serious, painstaking musician, a good judge of programs with a simple, direct way of presenting them. In Philadelphia his toughest job will be to hold an audience long accustomed to the excitement which Stokowski invariably provides...
When the Philadelphia Orchestra settled itself on the stage at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, Cellist Elsa Hilger suddenly became so excited that she could scarcely get down to business, even when Conductor Leopold Stokowski appeared, commanding instant attention for the opening Handel overture. Cellist Hilger had spied the instrument being used by her desk-mate, Cellist Victor Gottlieb. It looked like the $10,000 Guarnerius which had been hers until two years ago when it was stolen from a taxicab...
...been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose the great Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each day by dousing his head in a bucket of icy water. There...