Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Conductors Leopold Stokowski and Arthur Fiedler, who have already tried being radio disc jockeys, were joined this week by Britain's loquacious Sir Thomas Beecham. New York City's WQXR began a series of recorded Beecham chats (Wed. 8:05-9 p.m.). Vacationing in Paris, Sir Thomas told a TIME correspondent how he happened to do the transcriptions...
This week, over Manhattan's station WNBC (Tues. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.), the nation's lowest-paid disc jockey entered the overcrowded field. White-maned, 63-year-old Leopold Stokowski, for 24 years conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, began a four-week show. Stokowski will play his own recordings of Bach music, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, and will accept a $1 bill in payment...
...only hope is "to make Bach available to more people." Explained Stokowski: "Bach lived all his life on the edge of starvation. I have the thought that somewhere in America is a great artist who is similarly unrecognized. I am saying that we have to remember our artists. That is the thought in the back of my mind...
...Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 2. Lily Pons and Ferruccio Tagliavini. 3. Eduard Werner and the Detroit Scandinavian Orchestra. 4. Rudolf Bing and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. 5. Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra...
Suzanne Grassie '51 was yesterday elected president of the newly-chartered Radcliffe Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Other officers elected are: Sadja Stokowski '51, vice-president; Jacqueline Mitchell '53, secretary; and Mira Stern '53, treasurer...