Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Through better education for Negroes who show talent, much work has been done to develop Negro music to fill its rightful place as an indigenous art in this country. William Dawson and William Grant Still, whose symphonic works have been sponsored (perhaps unfortunately) by the pride of Philadelphia. Leopold Stokowski, are among the most important names associated with this movement...
...Hocker, a onetime bank clerk who, at 19, got ex cited about the Philadelphia Orchestra's Youth Concerts, became their manager a year later. For musical director of his opera, Hocker got a onetime piano prodigy, Sylvan Levin, who had been assistant conductor to the great, emotionally profiled Stokowski. Hocker & Levin resolved to keep their opera youthful, avoid stars like the plague, angels like leprosy. They cherished an idea which the Metropolitan has persuaded many people to believe a terrible heresy: that opera can be sung in English. (Throughout Europe, of course, it is sung in the language...
...considered to be as inadequate as this one. As a matter of fact, I can remember few recorded versions of anything that struck me as being so completely shallow and without not only comprehension of what the composer wanted, but what could be done with the score itself. Leopold Stokowski is often accused (and Justly so) of rendering Bach in a manner quite unlike what the composed intended, or what the "correct" interpretation is conceived to be. But at least, he almost always gives a rendition that is musicically fascinating no matter how you may disagree with his interpretations...
Four of Bach's works for solo organ are included on the program. The Fugue in G major, the Tocatta and Fugue in D minor, known to many through Stokowski's transcription of it for orchestra, and two Chorale Preludes. It is in these Chorale Preludes that Bach proves himself to be one of the greatest masters of the organ...
...again. So was the weather. It poured. But that did not stop 54 guests, representing most of Hollywood's international elite, from streaming into the plush-conditioned Rathbone mansion. Occasion was a party in honor of Polish:born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. London-born Conductor Leopold Stokowski, and Poland...