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...Philadelphia Orchestra began with Fritz Reiner of the Cincinnati Symphony for guest the first half season. Sir Thomas Beecham (England), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit), Josef Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Pierre Monteux (France) and Frederick Stock (Chicago) are possibilities for portions of the last half. Conductor Leopold Stokowski (whose arm is lamed) sailed last week for Europe and the Orient, to be away a year looking for new, unusual music...
When neuritis and an automobile accident lamed Leopold Stokowski's arm so that he was forced to ask for a year's leave of absence (TIME, May 9), music-lovers wondered who would be selected to direct the famed Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...
...Stokowski obviously did not wish to make a speech. He bowed and retreated a dozen times, feeling, perhaps, that the eloquence of 15 years, during which he had patiently fashioned the orchestra into an outstanding U. S. institution, could not be improved upon by extemporaneous phrases at a perfunctory moment. Or perhaps, knowing his people, he was heightening his effect...
Wagging his long silky locks, Mr. Stokowski discussed the audience. A balcony voice cried out, "Thank all of us!" but the silky locks wagged again. No, Mr. Stokowski was going to make distinctions. He looked up at the cheapest seats and said: "I have frequently ridden past the Academy two or three hours before a concert, and seen you standing there ... in cold, snow, sleet and rain. This shows you love music. . . . It has meant a lot to me. . . . Encouraged...
...locks wagged with stern finality. Conductor Stokowski bade Philadelphia goodbye "for a long time...