Word: stokowskis
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Blonde, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 18, daughter of famed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski, announced her plan to enter summer stock, become a great actress. Said she: "You've got to do something in life, you can't just sit around...
...playing has little inwardness and no depth, but precisely because it is showy and spirited, it goes over big. An accomplished showman, Evans disdains jazz effects; instead, he scores Shakespeare richly for full orchestra, achieves a Stokowski-like splendor of sound...
Last week at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Bell engineers gave an invitation performance of their stereophonic recordings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted and enhanced by silver-maned Leopold Stokowski. After listening to the thunderings and whisperings, Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff was inclined to doubt the musical worth of the recordings. Said he: "Too much enhancing; too much Stokowski...
...Through better education for Negroes who show talent, much work has been done to develop Negro music to fill its rightful place as an indigenous art in this country. William Dawson and William Grant Still, whose symphonic works have been sponsored (perhaps unfortunately) by the pride of Philadelphia. Leopold Stokowski, are among the most important names associated with this movement...
...Hocker, a onetime bank clerk who, at 19, got ex cited about the Philadelphia Orchestra's Youth Concerts, became their manager a year later. For musical director of his opera, Hocker got a onetime piano prodigy, Sylvan Levin, who had been assistant conductor to the great, emotionally profiled Stokowski. Hocker & Levin resolved to keep their opera youthful, avoid stars like the plague, angels like leprosy. They cherished an idea which the Metropolitan has persuaded many people to believe a terrible heresy: that opera can be sung in English. (Throughout Europe, of course, it is sung in the language...