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...arrived 25 minutes early. An hour later, a fourth of the musicians had not yet turned up. Stokowski abruptly quit...
Universal's Columnist Ruben Salazar Mallen observed: "Mexicans are guilty of letting Stokowski run over them. They have an inferiority complex. . . . Mexico and Stokowski are guilty." Famed Composer Carlos Chavez submitted that "it is sufficient to recall that the Mexican Symphony Orchestra has been functioning regularly -without disputes - for the last 16 years." Stokowski wrote an open letter of explanation to Mexico's President Avila Camacho...
...explanatory as anyone was ample, well-meaning Contralto Josefina ("Cha-cha") Aguilar, who sang Ponce's La Mort under another conductor. She had handed the six-instrument score to Stokowski. It was not Ponce's score; Ponce, unable to find a full orchestral score, had agreed to let her offer the smaller one to the conductor, but asked her to explain the situation. Somehow the explanation got lost along...
Before the week was out, Stokowski and Ponce had a love feast. The composer broke out a bottle of 100-year-old cognac...
...Next Stokowski stop: Vera Cruz...