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Battle Royal. Before the first strip of film had gone into the enlarger, three topflight U.S. conductors, all Shostakovich champions-sleek, platinum-haired Leopold Stokowski, the Cleveland Orchestra's Artur Rodzinski, Boston's Serge Koussevitzky-were locked in a polite battle royal for the glory of conducting the premi...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, in F Minor (NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 10 sides). An unorthodox, exciting reading of the famed Russian's "Fate" Symphony, in which Stokowski uses his fluid-drive conducting, disturbing to conservative musicians, fascinating to most ears...
...results in the musical hash you find occasionally in Mahler, who anticipated T. S. Eliot's patchwork technique in this respect. A conductor, however, has to "get inside" a Bach or Debussy, and to interpret a number of radically different styles in the spirit in which they were used. Stokowski, always the actor, can't restrain himself from making self-revealing comments in program notes and short speeches. Last winter he announced a Bach work about to be played as "an inspired inspiration." Toscanini wisely says and writes nothing at all, because his interpretative range is clearly limited. But after...
...festival crowns the Philharmonic's centennial year. It crowns, for Toscanini, a sporadic season of conducting. A year ago, when the maestro ended his 1940-41 season with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, he would not decide to continue for another year. NBC made other plans, secured Leopold Stokowski as its star conductor. Other orchestras pressed the conductor for guest appearances. He finally succumbed. Since November, he has conducted eight Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, five NBC Symphony broadcasts for the Treasury Department (for which he took no pay), has also done more recording for Victor than in any previous year...
When Toscanini left the Philharmonic in 1936, the orchestra was on close competing terms with Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra. Then the Philharmonic pinned its faith on short, swart John Barbirolli, who proved an able welterweight, but no world champ. The Philharmonic went into a slump. Attendance dropped from 86% of capacity to 81%. This season, partly to celebrate its centennial, partly to lift its dwindling prestige, the Philharmonic gave its subscribers a glittering stream of guest conductors. An erratic season, it produced some half-empty houses, but attendance rose...