Word: stokowskis
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Among those selected as the "best pajamaed males in the U.S. in 1950" (by pajama manufacturers): Vice President Alben Berkley, Dwight Eisenhower, Erroll Flynn, Ezzard Charles, Nelson Rockefeller, Leopold Stokowski...
...powers to anybody else. Staggered by guest conductors and triumvirates, the U.S.'s oldest (108 years) and once finest orchestra lost much of its poise and polish. Last spring the directors finally overcame their hesitation, picked Minneapolis' Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, who shared the season with Leopold Stokowski last year...
...prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert's Italian Street Song (sung by Jeanette MacDonald); Bluebird of Happiness (sung by Jan Peerce...
Born. To Maestro Leopold Stokowski, 68, and Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 26, his third wife (he is her second husband): their first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Weight...
...Heart of the Ballet (Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra; Victor, 10 sides). Just in time for balletomanes who want a musical refresher before Britain's Sadler's Wells Company arrives in the U.S. next week. Includes excerpts from the music for Giselle, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, etc., all well-Stokowskied. Recording: good...