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...songs were promptly written about him in the U. S. Some were serious, some slapstick, all packed with platitudes. "Lucky Lindy" and "Lindbergh, the Eagle of the U. S. A." were most popular but they were soon forgotten. It was a German importation on the Lindbergh theme which Conductor Leopold Stokowski considered worthy of two Philadelphia orchestra performances in Philadelphia last week. Perhaps because it was composed expressly for radio performance,*Stokowski chose to give it in the last of four nationwide broadcasts sponsored by the Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery...
Until recently there has been little recognition of the far reaching possibilities of the moving picture field. These are gradually coming to light and as a result the movies are becoming increasingly interesting and entertaining. The announcement that Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will make a sound recording of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" and Prokofleff's "Pas d'Acier" is another indication that the moving picture is slowly coming...
...ghost of an old man with a sabre scar across his cheek hovered over Boston's Symphony Hall last week. In his honor Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky had prepared a six-day Bach festival and undertaken to give two complete performances of the great B Minor Mass. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer had come to do some of the soloing in her deep, vibrant voice. Singers from Harvard University and Radcliffe College had worked for weeks polishing the difficult choruses. Conductor Koussevitzky was keyed to a pitch where no amount of effort was too much to spend in the memory of Major Henry...
...Jameson '32 announced that the Pierian Sodality of 1808 would close its one hundred and twenty-third season with a concert on April 9, at Paine Hall. C. W. Wood worth '24, conductor of the orchestra, will bring to a close one of the most successful seasons that the Pierian Sodality has known, with a program which will include a piano solo by Professor Edward Ballantine '07 in one of his rare public appearances...
...What is it about Russian music that creates such a tension in you?" asked famed Polish-English Conductor Leopold Stokowski in Manhattan last week, after stating that he will soon be off on his first visit to the Soviet Union. Answering his own question, the Conductor continued...