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...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arthur Brisbane, General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Hugh Walpole, General Pershing, Leopold Stokowski and many another were invited to a reception in Her Majesty's honor at the Ritz, Manhattan. Of the 800 persons presented, a few kissed the royal hand and a few ran around to the end of the line after being presented and were presented again. Most shook hands with the Queen...
...perfection from the gloom of old Carnegie Hall. Even a tone poem about a Prophet, in phrases and measures twisted to tortuous futurity by one Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing, became articulate; for in the gloom was hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged...
...Academy of Music one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer William Schroeder, difficult, cleverly constructed, tedious; Dukas...
...Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor, will give 102 concerts, 78 of them in Philadelphia. There will be the regular series of 29 Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts, begin- ning Oct. 8 and ending April 30, and 10 Monday evening concerts and a double series of young people's concerts Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Out of town appearances will be in New York (10), Baltimore (5), Washington (3), Indianapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Among the soloists will be Moriz Rosenthai, Sergei Rachmaninov, Clara Haskil, Walter Gieseking, Efrem Zimbalist, Ruth Breton, Maurice Marechal, Lauritz Melchior...
Next spring conductor Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Symphony will be heard in 18 European concerts, beginning at Paris, ending at London. "Everyone in Europe is dying to hear our Symphony," declared Philadelphia concert manager Arthur Judson last week...