Word: stokpwski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Manhattan concertgoers departed from performances by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall last fortnight, most of their talk ran on the "spectacle" Conductor Leopold Stokpwski had provided. Hoping, he said, to enhance the beauty of his music, and free the ear from distraction by the eye, he had hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show...
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