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Curiouser and curiouser are Leopold Stokowski's programs. Visiting Manhattan in the wake of the great, departing Toscanini, he led his Philadelphians-instrumentally the world's finest-through what many a critic pronounced "the poorest orchestral program of the year." Three U. S. works were introduced: Prelude to a Drama, by Sandor Harmati, conductor of the Omaha Orchestra; Study in Sonority (for 40 violins-title by Stokowski), by Wallingford Riegger, New York pedagog; Indian Dances, by Frederick Jacobi, of California...
...dismay of sensitive folk and the delight of the pugnacious, the audience hissed, hissssed. Ironically, Conductor Stokowski motioned his men to rise, to receive an ovation never given. The few faithful who remained after the interval heard Mozart's G minor Symphony and the Third Leonore Overture...
...have thought themselves unnoticed but the little man on the conductor's dais had been disturbed. He wheeled on them, crossed his arms in a Napoleonic attitude, stared them up and down and said, quite distinctly, "You are late!" Philadelphia audiences have been frequently rebuked by Conductor Leopold Stokowski; Manhattan, never before...
Three years ago Musical America offered a $3,000 prize for the best symphonic work to be composed by an American. The judges were Conductors Walter Damrosch, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz, Frederick Stock, Serge Koussevitzky, and they chose unanimously from 92 scores an "epic rhapsody" called America by Ernest Block That the prize-winning music was by Bloch, who is considered by many the foremost U. S. composer, and that so distinguished an array of judges had professed themselves enthusiatic and promised, each one, to give America an early performance, combined to arouse more interest than could any blatant heralding...
...well-informed on musical matters know him as a musician of outstanding merit whose littlest interpretations are fraught with beauty. So it was last week that Philadelphia greeted him cordially, even as he stood on the throne of so great a god as Leopold Stokowski, away now on his mid-season holiday; and that Manhattan paid him like honor when he brought the Philadelphia Orchestra there...