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...name, foreign-name maestros who lead U. S. symphony orchestras, the most typically, most restlessly American is a British-born Irish-Pole: Leopold Antony Stokowski. Bored with the daily routine of polishing up well-known classics, Stokowski long ago jumped the fence of the conventional musical pasture and wandered far afield. He rewrote symphonic oomph into Bach fugues, started adding weird electrical instruments to his orchestra, played the Communist Internationale at a Philadelphia symphony concert. When, four years ago, Stokowski retired from the chief conductorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra and went to Hollywood to make movies, Philadelphia conservatives sighed with...
Last winter platinum-haired Maestro Stokowski announced that he would form an orchestra of young Americans that could stand up to the best symphonies in the country. Musicasters thought he was just huffing & puffing. But Stokowski meant it, every syllable...
...colleagues, he never talks to fan magazine writers, spurns nightclubs, carries his dislike of Hollywood parties to the point of rudeness. This has made him much sought after and Hollywood's premier hostess, Mrs. Basil Rathbone, is reported this year to have announced that she would trade Stokowski, Rubinstein and Rachmaninoff for one Brent appearance at a party...
This spring, platinum-polled Leopold Stokowski toured the U. S., gave auditions to 500 aspirants to the "All American Youth Orchestra" which he plans to take to South America. Although he had set age limits (15 to 25), he stretched the limit after hearing, in Detroit, a 14-year-old Negro trumpeter named William B. Horner Jr. Last week, Trumpeter Horner's name was on the list of 84 winners announced by Conductor Stokowski in Manhattan. The other players, although they came from all over the U. S., were by no means all young, or cornfed, or self-taught...
...orchestra, which will make its debut in Washington before embarking for South America in mid-July, Stokowski exclaimed: "I expected to find great talent, but I have found more and a higher type of talent than even I believed existed. . . . These musicians are of a musical quality that has not existed in previous generations in our country. A great flowering of Art is just beginning in America, and it is expressing itself first through Music...