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Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 8 sides; Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) in F (New York City Symphony, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Pittsburgh's Reiner is generally content to play Beethoven the way Beethoven wrote it; Stokowski, who still feels a call to improve on the composer, lushes up the Pastoral. Orchestral performance of both: good...
Good or bad, an orchestra was finally got together. By combing through Havana's military bands, Stokowski found 55 men who had been known to blow horns. To sing Schiller's Ode to Joy, which concludes the symphony, he hired a Cuban chorus of 150 who knew no German. Then 21 string players and a tenor who knew German were flown from New York by chartered plane. And Stokowski triumphantly assured Cubans that the sublime music of Beethoven would be conducted by the sublime Stokowski-three days late...
Then the trouble began. Philharmonic officials announced that their musicians would not be permitted to play for Stokowski. Scouting around for a pick-up orchestra, Stokie discovered that the first-rate musicians in Havana were in the Philharmonic...
Sublime Music. To the press Stokie muttered, "boycott." Then he scurried to Cuba's bewildered President Ramon Grau San Martin, who assigned his secretary to act as mediator. Barked Stokowski: "The man has not yet been born who can dictate...
...hard-dying rumor, but no fact. Stokowski was born in London, to a Polish father, Josef Boleslaw Kopernicus Stokowski, and an Irish mother...