Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Reactionary program planners have been subjected to some rather bitter attacks from critics all over this country during the last few years. Jose Rodriguez, in Script, addressed a statement to Leopold Stokowski of which a part is quoted here:" . . . If you wish, you can please the mob, and also the students and the initiated. You can give a hearing to the masters of tomorrow as well as those of yesterday; among the first, particularly those who speak of the aspirations of our time and our own country; among the second, those who have been undeservedly neglected in spite of their...
Debussy: Nocturnes (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 8 sides). First complete U. S. recording of a shimmering Impressionist masterpiece. Conductor Stokowski gives it more fire than shimmer. Victor sound engineers record it magnificently...
While on the subject of classical, here are a couple of albums just released that are worth the attention of any record fan, classical or jazz. On the Victor label this month is "Nocturnes" by Claude Debussy recorded by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. It seems to me that anybody who wants to play good jazz should plan to include Debussy in his course of study...
...album is recorded beautifully with Stokowski extracting the lush but powerful tone that he always manages to get out of a string section. Listen especially to the "Sirens," the third part of the work, which is very seldom played or recorded. It has some chorus work that will relay set your ears on end. Ellington's weirdest jungle stuff has nothing on this...
...surprisingly, in his book, Quiz Champion Levant slips on many a fact. Sample boners: that Leopold Stokowski taught the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to play Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps in 1930 (famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler had done it five years before); that Harpo Marx tunes his harp backwards (Harpo's tuning, though unorthodox, is not backwards); that Toscanini cannot see the men in his orchestra (Toscanini, farsighted, can see quite well beyond six feet...