Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hailed as one of America's best is symphonic orchestra created by Leopold Stokowski from: 1. Young American boys and girls. 2. Persons without formal musical training. 3. Southern Negroes. 4. European refugees. 5. Convicts...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...
...Maestro Stokowski brought home 300 records which he made of South American music, among them some tunes played by Indian witch doctors. At Stokowski's request, 150 Indians were taken to Rio de Janeiro by busses, from which they emerged mother-naked. Ensued a lively discussion about whether their instruments were clothing enough. The answer was no. So Youth Orchestra members rustled up some garments...
...many listeners in the two Americas, Leopold Stokowski and his youngsters had by last week proved that 20 years is not needed to make an orchestra; that, anyway, the conductor is the thing. That proved, Stokowski announced that the Youth Orchestra would, at least temporarily, disband. It may be reassembled for a movie...
...birth certificate in London, where he was born of an Irish mother and a Polish father, reads Leopold Antony Stokowski...