As some football teams have co-captains, so some symphonies have co-conductors. Back to work from his summer home in Sanbornville, N.H. last week went one of the Philadelphia orchestra's co-conductors, blond-haired, Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy. Mr. Ormandy had spent a diligent summer, working over programs, boning up on the violin, his first love, with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz.
Far from Philadelphia last week was the symphony's other co-conductor, sad-eyed Leopold Stokowski, resting in Beverly Hills, Calif, after a less industrious but equally eventful European summer in the company of Greta Garbo. Since Great Conductor Stokowski's...