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...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...
...Tchaikowski Fifth Symphony, played by Rodzinski and the Cleveland Symphony, Orchestra, offers a fresh opportunity to hear this great work, and its miracles of beauty and power. The recording supplies a long-standing need for a good rendition of the symphony, as there has been heretofore nothing but Stokowski's old Victor album, full of the cheapest kind of distortion and the most cloying saccharinity. Rodzinski plays the symphony with verve, but straightforwardly. He brings out not the sobbing emotionalism which people profess to find in Tchaikowski, but the wonderful melodic flow, the freedom of motion, and the unfailing dramatic...
...same way, we like better a portrayal of Hamlet which understates the passion in the lines. Then we feel the passion and emotion rising in us from the force of the language itself. If you heard at any time Stokowski's recording of the Tchaikowski Fifth Symphony, you heard a rendition which for all its treacly sweetness might have come from Guy Lombardo as a sample of the "sweetest music this side of heaven." If you heard Koussevitzky's version last Saturday night at Symphony Hall, you listened to a performance clipped and almost terse, which bound together the loose...