Joseph Szigeti in Queen's Hall - mid in the middle of 1908

from With strings attached- Reminiscences and reflections, 2nd edition, enlarged, page 244:

As it happened, I had been present at that memorable Stokowski debut in London one spring afternoon in 1908, when the young organist from St. Bartholomew’s electrified a Queen’s Hall audience. I still remember the already then typically Stokowskian sound of the London Orchestra in the concluding number- Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave – and the feline suppleness of the orchestral support that the young conductor gave to Zimbalist’s playing of Glazunov’s Concerto, then still a comparative novelty.
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Joseph Szigeti, With strings attached- Reminiscences and reflections, 2nd edition, enlarged (New York, 1967), p. 244. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1433270334612 accessed: 29 March, 2024

location of experience: Queen's Hall

Listeners

Joseph Szigeti
Violinist
1892-1973

Listening to

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Glazunov's concerto
written by Aleksandr Glazunov
performed by Leopold Stokowski, Efrem Zimbalist
Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave
written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
performed by Leopold Stokowski

Experience Information

Date/Time mid in the middle of 1908
Medium live
Listening Environment indoors, in public

Originally submitted by tlisboa on Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:38:54 +0100
Approved on Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:21:00 +0000