Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Leopold Stokowski-while setting out with an All-American Youth Orchestra to tour 45 cities in the U. S., Canada, Mexico-was mentioned as successor to international music's "Old Man" -Arturo Toscanini-at the baton of the great and costly NBC Symphony. The reason was that Maestro Toscanini, up to last week, had kept strictly mum about his future plans, and the NBC Symphony was badly in need of a great conductor...
Radio listeners last week heard a piece of music inspired by a baseball team. Lean, drawly Composer Robert Russell Bennett, who in his youth was a semi-pro ballplayer, played a new Symphony in D for the Dodgers on his WOR-Mutual program, Russell Bennett's Notebook. To the Dodgers and their music-loving President Larry MacPhail, the symphony was a great comfort. Although they were still out in front in the National League, they had just lost a game in Pittsburgh, which ended a seven-game winning streak...
...last one at a time when it was economically unwise, this proposal (soon to be openly pushed by-Administration spokesmen) is from all angles desirable. It gives the economy as sound a start in the post-war world as is possible, and at the same time gives the youth in arms a no less than fair deal in the future...
Aubrey William's "Jobs for Youth" is not only an excellent study of the N. Y. A., but also a "must" for all prospective N. Y. A., workers at Harvard. It covers the field comprehensively and interestingly, and includes a stimulating discussion of the project's larger social implications...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Love Music (All-American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Dr. Stokowski, a great one for tinkering, first fixed up these surging passages for Victor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra. With his youths (Class of 1940) he produces a satisfactory, briefer...