Word: stokowskis
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...takes showmanship nowadays to keep even so great an orchestra as the Philadelphia Symphony afloat. But showman-ship is just what Conductor Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...
...striking contrast were Kate Smith, Washington, D. C.'s tremendous contribution to radio, and that other Washington musician, small, blue-eyed William Hartman Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury. Young William Curtis Bok, who presided at the speakers' table, .asked Maestro Stokowski and his men to play Mr. Woodin's Covered Wagon suite. The Secretary of the Treasury beamed modestly throughout the performance, then made a little speech: "When I heard my poor music so wonderfully played by Prince Stokowski and his men, I thought, 'There is music in the Treasury and, I hope, harmony...
Composer Deems Taylor conducted some of his own music, managing his pince-nez with one hand, his baton with the other. Efrem Zimbalist fiddled. Then Kate Smith sang the big siren song from Samson & Delilah while Stokowski, a bit unnerved, conducted...
Economy was the subject in New York where the orchestra's predicament was unpleasantly emphasized by the absence of Critic Lawrence Oilman's authoritative program notes. Economy was the keynote of the Philadelphia concert where Stokowski. almost in a single breath, mourned the passing of the Orchestra's president, Alexander Van Rensselaer, and pleaded for support so that the orchestra might go on. This week at a banquet promoted by William Curtis Bok, the Philadelphia Orchestra's unsold season tickets were auctioned in an attempt to save the players a pay-cut of 19%. With...
...impressed upon her at the beginning of her career when a New York manager made her change her name from Hickenlooper (she was the daughter of a San Antonio army officer). She felt it even more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work. She became critic of the New York Evening Post only to be criticized for constantly presenting the musician...