Word: stokowskis
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...sweet confusion of an orchestra tuning up, there are no musicians in the pit. As the curtains part, a huge symphony orchestra appears hazily, on the screen. Before it steps a thin, grinning, bald-headed man. He introduces himself as Deems Taylor, welcomes the audience, on behalf of Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, to "an entirely new form of entertainment." When he finishes, Leopold Stokowski himself, his back to the audience, steps into the picture, raises his arms, and the great orchestra swirls into Bach's D Minor Toccata and Fugue...
This is the beginning of a symphony concert-but what a concert! Illustrated by Walt Disney; written by Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Dukas, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Schubert; conducted by Stokowski; master-of-ceremonied by Deems Taylor; played by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mickey and Stokowski together put on a brand...
Fair, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 19, daughter of fair, blue-eyed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, after a venIn Oslo, the Quisling Government ordered burned all books by Nobel Prize Novelist Sigrid Undset, who is now in the U. S. Grounds: her works (chronicling Norway's rich medieval past) were not national...
...Hailed as one of America's best is symphonic orchestra created by Leopold Stokowski from: 1. Young American boys and girls. 2. Persons without formal musical training. 3. Southern Negroes. 4. European refugees. 5. Convicts...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...