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...product of Leopold Stokowski's 1940 pilgrimage to South America with his Youth Orchestra came to light this month: a pair of lively albums (Native Brazilian Music, Vols. 1 & 2; Columbia; 8 sides each) made in Rio by native groups under the platinum-haired maestro's guiding hand. Local orchestras play sambas (the best most danceable to date) and macumhas with dizzy cross rhythms. Pixinguingha, a 250-pound Negro medal winner of the Brazilian National Academy of Music, puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny...
Music received its first special award when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out its annual Oscars last week (see p. 68). The special award went to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, for "the creation of a new form of visualized music" in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and it highlighted both the growing influence of Hollywood as a music capital and Hollywood's increasing dependence on music. Other musician winners...
Victor has just released Stokowski's excellent recording of Szostakowicz's sixth symphony, and Columbia has recorded his quintet for piano and strings with the Stuyvesant Quartet and a Miss Vivian Rivkin. I haven't been able to hear the quintet, but I was very much impressed by the sixth. I don't think it will rank as high as the fifth in the long run, but there is a lot of good stuff in it, especially the sombre and leisurely first movement which is the kind of drawn-out thematic development which he does to perfection in the first...
...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...
...merely disillusioned, cynical and ugly, young Shostakovich's First Symphony spoke up brightly with gusty tunes and youthful zest. This month, phonograph record shops all over the U.S. put on display two outstanding albums of the premier Russian musician: his Symphony No. 6 (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 9 sides); his Piano Quintet (Vivian Rivkin and Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides...