Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This spring, platinum-polled Leopold Stokowski toured the U. S., gave auditions to 500 aspirants to the "All American Youth Orchestra" which he plans to take to South America. Although he had set age limits (15 to 25), he stretched the limit after hearing, in Detroit, a 14-year-old Negro trumpeter named William B. Horner Jr. Last week, Trumpeter Horner's name was on the list of 84 winners announced by Conductor Stokowski in Manhattan. The other players, although they came from all over the U. S., were by no means all young, or cornfed, or self-taught...
...orchestra, which will make its debut in Washington before embarking for South America in mid-July, Stokowski exclaimed: "I expected to find great talent, but I have found more and a higher type of talent than even I believed existed. . . . These musicians are of a musical quality that has not existed in previous generations in our country. A great flowering of Art is just beginning in America, and it is expressing itself first through Music...
...expects to make no money on its prestigious tour, but last fortnight, within six hours after ticket sales began, all the concerts were sold out. To one U. S. maestro, this was not unmixed good news. Platinum-mopped Leopold Stokowski began raising an "All American Youth Orchestra" last winter, planned also to make a South American tour-for good will. Since last spring, Stokowski has professed to be undaunted by Toscanini's rival junket, has apparently not been bothered by the prospect that South Americans, always sensitive to any sort of patronizing from the North, might be averse...
Last week, chins up, the Stokowski outfit insisted that its South American tour would begin in mid-July. Busy preparing for the trip, Mr. Stokowski was up to his waist in eager musical youngsters. With the cooperation of the National Youth Administration, Stokowski has held auditions in a dozen cities, attracting youths from surrounding States. Some 10,000 boys and girls, aged 16 to 25, applied for jobs in the 109-piece orchestra. The 500 who survived preliminary weedings played before Stokowski, who judged them for personality, individuality, docility under a conductor. Stokowski would like to have every State represented...
...kidded him about his playing . . . So word back from Chicago says that he is now Bud Freeman's drummer and is hailed as a sensation . . . Rumor has it that Benny Goodman is going to release drummer Fatool, that he traded punches with "Handy" Stokowski, and that he is going to make records with Fred Astaire...