{"id":4575,"date":"2016-04-12T04:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2016-04-12T04:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:45:55","slug":"stokowskis-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4575","title":{"rendered":"Stokowski&#8217;s orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from the conductor Leopold Stokowski to Sylvan Levin gives an insight into his sense of humour:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Caro Maestro Illustre,<br \/>\n Now that you have not a thing to do!!!!! Do you think you would have time to do me a favor and time the whole of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Parsifal<\/span> without cuts?&#x000A0; I suggest you do this alone and without your orchestra; otherwise the tempo might be too fast!!<\/p>\n<p> Also the same afternoon could you look through <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Carmen<\/span> noting the places that are rich cream, those that are just milk, and those that are mainly water.&#x000A0; Because we may do next season a very abridged version of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Carmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> I cannot think of anything else to do that afternoon except perhaps you would invite me to tea so as to fill out the time!&#x000A0; (Yes, lemon meringue pie.)<\/p>\n<p> Always,<br \/>\n Maestrino<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Source: Chasins, Abram (1979) <i>Leopold Stokowski: A Profile<\/i>.&#x000A0; London: Robert Hale, p.132-133. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from the conductor Leopold Stokowski to Sylvan Levin gives an insight into his sense of humour: Caro Maestro Illustre, Now that you have not a thing to do!!!!! Do you think you would have time to do me a favor and time the whole of Parsifal without cuts?&#x000A0; I suggest you do this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1102,585],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-caro-maestro-illustre","tag-leopold-stokowski"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4576,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}