{"id":4597,"date":"2016-04-12T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2016-04-12T05:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:28:16","slug":"stokowskis-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4597","title":{"rendered":"Stokowski’s rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raoul Berger (who eventually had a fall out with the conductor Stokowski<\/a> and left The Philahrmonic Orchestra) described Stokowski’s rehearsal process:<\/p>\n

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In rehearsal Stoki was given to the methods of a marine drill-sergeant, brutal and insulting.\u00a0 In those days he was accustomed to make sweeping changes every season, so that those who were dependent on their jobs lived in fear and trembling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He had his good qualities – a rich, voluptuous sound, great precision and vitality.\u00a0 In music that called for fire and sensuality he was at his best.\u00a0 His ‘Danse Infernale’ from Stravinsky’s Firebird<\/span> was truly demonic, etched in biting rhythms.\u00a0 He rose to sensual ecstasy inthe Afternoon of a Faun<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Unlike Walter and Mengelberg, Stoki indulged in no long-winded ‘explanations’ of the music in literary images.\u00a0 All was addressed in terms of how to do it, as it should be.\u00a0 Consequently rehearsals were short, not a minute wasted, often only half the length of the average rehearsal.\u00a0 He knew where the weak spots were and rehearsed them. … Not a little of the ‘mesmerism’ of which some of his players speak grew out of the fact that the men were not wearied , boring rehearsals, that we had fewer concerts and rehearsals than most major orchestras, that often they had not a chance to play a work through, and therefore fell on it with ardor at the concert. Then too, he had his matchless players – Tabuteau, Kincaid, and Caston.\u00a0 When he once adjured Anton Horner to play a passage softer, Horner, after several tries, rose, brandished his horn and said, “There are sixteen feet of pipe in this, and if I don’t blow in, nothing comes out.” That closed the matter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chasins, Abram (1979) Leopold Stokowski: A Profile<\/em>.\u00a0 London: Robert Hale, p.109.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raoul Berger (who eventually had a fall out with the conductor Stokowski and left The Philahrmonic Orchestra) described Stokowski’s rehearsal process: In rehearsal Stoki was given to the methods of a marine drill-sergeant, brutal and insulting.\u00a0 In those days he was accustomed to make sweeping changes every season, so that those who were dependent on […]<\/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":[551],"tags":[585,1093],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities-of-the-musicians","tag-leopold-stokowski","tag-rehearsal-process"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","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=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}