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Robert Stumpf, II wrote:
>Stokowski could take any orchestra and make it sound great.
While I am not as great of a fan of Stokowski as Bob Stumpf, I will say
that when I was dubbing some of the Stokowski Houston Symphony tapes, I
was amazed at the quality of the playing. They certainly did have some
great first chair players, oboe, clarinet, etc. but Stokowski made the
ensemble sound great. While I don't know what happened inbetween, the
Ernest Hoffman years, through about 1950 (some broadcasts survive) versus
the first of the surviving Stokowski broadcasts, 1957, the difference
is unbelieveable.
Karl
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