MASTERS’ MUSIC
WILL BE WHISTLED HOLLYWOOD /March 19. Movie-going whistlers will switch to the “classical,” Leopold Stokowski, conductor, predicts. Furthermore, he intends to make them want to. Mr. Stokowski dislikes the term “classical music” because it chills listeners. “Great music,” it is to him. In his next picture, the conductor has selected musical scores from such composers as Mozart. Wagner and Tschaikovsky. He predicted that the audiences will leave the -theatre whistling the “classical” numbers instead of the popular lunes composed for the film. Before leaving for the East on a short visit, he said: “Screen music must be an integral part, of the film, not something added afterwards. Its contribution to the movies is to intensify the emotion and to say those things which lie deep in our hearts and which cannot he said with words.” Mr. Stokowski’s film work is a step in his campaign “to send out tho greatest music to the greatest number of listeners over the world.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 May 1937, Page 9
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