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Lamed in his right shoulder by a motor smash, an attack of neuritis and overmuch work, Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra departed his audience last week for an 18-month vacation. It was the end of his 15th season in the city of old families and new gossip. The auditorium crashed with more than perfunctory hand-clapping...
Said Dr. Barnes: "I shall be a humble and unworthy follower of great people like Stokowski, Mary Cassatt, Abbey, Sloan, Glackens and many others-who leave Philadelphia to get a breath of fresh air and never come back...
Last week in Manhattan, a dubious audience strained expectant ears, saw musical instruments, were invited to hear musical tones, which most of them had never dreamed existed. On the stage of Carnegie Hall, Leopold Stokowski, able conductor, master of the unexpected, stood in command before the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented Julian Carillo's† "System of the 13th Sound." Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones...
Through the two movements of Mr. Carillo's Concertino Mr. Stokowski led the orchestra into strange and subtle effects of fractional tone. Of the audience, some saw prospects of infinite, new subtleties of music; many found their ears too coarse for the 96-tone octave, only heard slightly distorted semi-tones...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, a daughter; in Manhattan. Mr. Stokowski, famed Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conductor, married (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926) Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, daughter of a founder of Johnson & Johnson, famed medicinal chemical firm. He has one daughter, Sonia, by his previous wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, now New York Evening Post musical critic, from whom he was divorced...