Sneeze

Several concerts passed this autumn in which Conductor Leopold Stokowski did not once undertake to discipline his Philadelphia Orchestra subscribers. One of his concerts last week championed ultra-modern composers, who always seem to send Conductor Stokowski into a highly sensitive state. Last week was no exception. During the curious sounds listed as a Symphony for Small Orchestra by Anton Webern, someone sneezed. Coughs and chuckles were instantly let loose. But Conductor Stokowski did not stay to hear them. His arms fell abruptly to his sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence followed. Then, in order to fetch Stokowski, the audience decided to clap. No further rude behavior interrupted Mosolow's Soviet Iron Foundry, a bombastic souvenir of Stokowski's recent Russian visit, or Abraham Lincoln, a rambling panegyric by Robert Russell Bennett, a Kansas City native.

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