Word: stokowskis
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Conductor Leopold Stokowski is happy. His band finally saved, his job secure, his men merrily signing their new contracts, he will go to Paris for the Summer. And in October his great jubilee season (the orchestra's 25th) will open as planned...
Unfortunately, much of the effect of this grotesquerie was lost in the vast open spaces of Carnegie Hall. It had proved far more exciting when it was first given in the small Vanderbilt Theatre last December by the International Composers' Guild. Stokowski's men had greater success with their conductor's stirring arrangement of the sweeping Bach Passacaglia. The Philadelphians ended on that note of grandiose exaltation...
...Philadelphia Orchestra is threatened with dissolution; Conductor Leopold Stokowski is at his wits' end with grief and vexation...
Meanwhile Conductor Stokowski has lamented as follows: "It is a great sorrow to me that this dispute has taken place. I certainly don't want anything to happen to my orchestra. I don't want to leave Philadelphia and I'm very fond of my orchestra. Then, too, I wanted to take it abroad. The French Government has invited me to conduct it in Paris, but I can't make arrangements with this dispute going
...Stokowski and the choir rendered an almost perfect performance. But the effect? Eloquent, yes. Sublimely inspired even, in spots?but with long, long stretches of infinite boredom...