Discover a rare short film tribute in which Leonard Bernstein talks about all three works performed in the new Bernstein "Homage to Stravinsky". This video also features documentary sequences of Stravinsky himself.
Charles Amirkhanian and George Cleve talk with noted Maestro, Carlos Chávez (Ciudad de México, 1899 - Coyoacán, 1978), just before his appearance as conductor and musical director of the 1971 Cabrillo Music Festival in Aptos California. Chavez talks about his musical careers, as a composer, conductor, and founder of the Mexico City Symphony. He tells about the time he conducted a work by Varese in Mexico in 1924. And he talks about his work as music director of the Cabrillo Music Festival. This program, recorded during a live broadcast on the afternoon of July 29, 1971 at KPFA, also includes recordings of the first movement of H.P. (1927) by Chavez, as well as a 1970 Festival recording of the composers Invención for Piano and Discovery for Orchestra.
To mark Leopold Stokowski's 88th birthday in 1970, a television documentary surveyed his life and career. In this programme, we see him rehearsing his own American Symphony Orchestra; dictating a letter to Andrzej Panufnik regarding the first performance of the composer's 'Universal Prayer'; auditioning a young violinist in his New York apartment; receiving a prestigious Gold Medal award from the American Academy; travelling to England by boat (he never flew) to record Beethoven's 5th Symphony with the London Philharmonic (not the London Symphony as incorrectly stated) for the Decca / London 'Phase-4' label, with producer Tony'D'Amato and chain-smoking engineer Arthur Lilley; watching a baseball game between the New York Philharmonic and American Symphony Orchestra; and being interviewed by Glenn Gould for Canadian radio.
The narrator mis-pronounces the Maestro's name (it should sound as if spelt "Stokoffski") but otherwise this is a well-produced programme. Remarkably, Stokowski lived to the ripe old age of 95 and was still energetically making records right up until a few weeks before he died in September 1977.
Incidentally, to set the record straight, he was born Leopold Stokowski on 18 April 1882, son of Kopernik Joseph Boleslaw Stokowski and his wife Annie-Marion, at 13 Upper Marylebone Street (now New Cavendish Street) in London (see his Wiki bio entry). At no stage in his life or career did he ever change his name from or to "Stokes." This was a nonsense dreamt up by his detractors once he'd achieved international fame in the 1930s.
In einer Fernsehfilmproduktion spielen das Kölner Ensemble für Neue Musik und Mauricio Kagel "Repertoire" aus "Staatstheater" Szenische Komposition von 1967/70.
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday, famed maestro Leonard Bernstein honors the life and work of the German composer in this tribute conducted, performed, written and narrated by Bernstein. The musical portrait features excerpts from Bernstein's performances of Beethoven's work, including the Ninth Symphony's "Ode to Joy," scenes from "Fidelio" and "Piano Concerto No. 1" with the Vienna Philharmonic.
In February 1968, Leopold Stokowski (Marylebone, 1882 - Hampshire, 1977) and his American Symphony Orchestra gave the opening concert in the new Madison Square Garden building. The programme included Beethoven's 'Leonore' Overture No. 3, Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' and Rachmaninoff's 'Paganini Rhapsody' with Jerome Lowenthal at the piano. Television cameras were on hand for one of the rehearsals and material was provided for two programmes. One consisted of just rehearsal excerpts and the other was a documentary entitled "Stokowski at 88."
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