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...Philharmonic Symphony. From Manhattan on the S. S. De Grasse sailed the New York Philharmonic Symphony bound for a tour of Europe under Conductor Arturo Toscanini. There went 114 musicians, 38 wives, nine children, two dogs, 250 trunks. Ten years ago the now defunct New York Symphony went on what was the first European tour by a U. S. orchestra, made the mistake of not practicing on shipboard. Philharmonic players intended to profit by that experience, practice daily that no brass-players may be handicapped by sore lips at the opening concert. In Paris, on May 3, the Orchestra...
...musical event-of-the-year: the stage presentation, first in Philadelphia, then in Manhattan, of the most controversial composition; of the age, Igor Stravinsky's savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...
Stokowski. It was fitting for Stokowski to be the first conductor in the U. S. to undertake the difficult stage productions of Le Sacre and Die Glückliche Hand. The unfurbished music of Le Sacre had its U. S. introduction by him in 1922. Schönberg's dissonances have fascinated Stokowski so strongly that he has persisted in presenting them despite the boos and hisses of audiences rarely given to such frank demonstration...
...They decided that he was the man to reorganize the Cincinnati Symphony. To Cincinnati he went in 1909, built up a first-rate orchestra (and a baseball team among the players). While there he married Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him a daughter, Sonia Maria Noel. His work as conductor soon attracted the attention of Philadelphians, particularly of the late Andrew Wheeler, blue-blooded secretary of the Orchestra. Wheeler felt that Philadelphia also needed some one young, energetic, pliable...
...continues to encourage them -perhaps because, like a shrewd prima donna, he has stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange it over the "back of the chair, standing so that the whole audience...