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...stunts pleased everyone but those who wanted to maintain the Bowl's 20-year reputation as a center of serious music in Southern California. The orchestra had been without a conductor since Leopold Stokowski left this spring. Last week, apparently embarrassed by the variety-show tone of its 1947 season, the Bowl hired Eugene Ormandy as "principal conductor and musical adviser" for 1948. In a guest appearance last season, Ormandy got more out of the orchestra than anyone else was able to. Ormandy will still keep his winter job with the Philadelphia Orchestra (where he had also succeeded Stokowski...
...slash & dash, her wild but indisputable charm and her whizzing success at her job, the head beneath the hats is something of an air pocket. In her very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...
Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...
...Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...
Nonetheless, the picture has a certain documentary interest. In it, posterity may see how many of today's most prominent musicians-some good, some not so good -look and act at close range, under weirdly confused, commercial circumstances. These artists include Damrosch, Heifetz, Pinza, Pons, Rodzinski, Rubinstein, Stokowski...