In the tumult & the shouting which attended Leopold Stokowski's final Youth Concert, Philadelphia last week came near forgetting a dark-haired, 19-year-old girl and the composition she had played by his Symphony Orchestra. Stokowski's youths (aged 13 to 25) had worked themselves into a frenzy over his prospective de parture (see above). They yelled for the conductor and, like young Curtis Bok, they aggressively demanded the orchestra board's resignation.
In the midst of the turmoil Stokowski played a Christmas Fantasy by young Ann Wyeth, daughter of Artist Newell Convers Wyeth, famed...
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