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Quietly, as on other Thursday evenings, the 94 musicians of the Chicago Symphony filed to their accustomed places before the aged, gold organ pipes of Orchestra Hall. Before them, on the small, railed conductor's platform, a score lay open on the familiar wooden music stand. But the platform remained empty. From one side of the stage Assistant Conductor Hans Lange led the orchestra, like a riderless steed, through the memorial music...
...Conductor Stock loved Chicago. His mission, in which he largely succeeded, was to foster in Midwesterners the belief that symphonic music could be as American as Milwaukee beer, as free of foreign snobbery as Michigan Avenue...
Loyally the khaki-clad audience roared: "Yes!" Unwisely Conductor Stokowski asked: "How many say no?" Following an old U.S. custom, a lone dissenter piped...
Then the chant changed to: "We want Stokowski!" The dapper conductor tripped across the stage. Shouted the tank corps: "He needs a haircut...
Still unruffled, Stokowski got down to the main business of the evening, Shostakovich's 80-minute masterwork. Discreetly Conductor Stokowski had cut the symphony's tortuous length by nearly half, but as he boomed and rattled into the home stretch of the first movement the audience shuffled and groaned impatiently, electricians began jabbering over their microphones, newsreel men noisily ground their cameras. Suddenly Stokowski stopped the orchestra. Said he: "Men, there is a little more of this symphony to play. I do not know whether you want to hear it and it does not matter...