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9 unusual facts about Leopold Stokowski


Edgar Vincent

Vincent also worked for a handful of musicians other than opera singers, including conductors Erich Leinsdorf, Leopold Stokowski and Georg Solti; the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; and the violinist Isaac Stern.

Harry Gorodetzer

Mr. Gorodetzer was the last musician hired for the orchestra by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski.

Herbert Elwell

He also composed a number of orchestral works which were extolled by such conductors as Artur Rodzinski, Leopold Stokowski, William Steinberg and Howard Hanson.

Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist

After consulting with musician friends, including Josef Hofmann and Leopold Stokowski, on how best to help musically gifted young people, Mrs. Bok purchased three mansions on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square and had them joined and renovated.

O. O. McIntyre

The "Thingumbobs" section of his column featured such observations as, "Leopold Stokowski likes a midnight hamburger with onions, too."

Paul Hoeffler

He also had a great passion for classical music and cultivated a close friendship with the conductor Leopold Stokowski, whom he photographed on many occasions during performances and in private.

Ralph Gomberg

At age 18 Ralph Gomberg became the first oboist in a youth orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski.

St Mary's Church, Charing Cross Road

In 1900, Leopold Stokowski formed and trained the choir there and played the organ.

Vincent Fanelli

From 1913 to 1930 he was principal harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski.


Dennis Trembly

While in New York, Trembly freelanced with several orchestras, including the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Village Light Opera, American Opera Society, and the American Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Leopold Stokowski.

Il prigioniero

The "professional" American premiere took place on September 29, 1960, at the New York City Center, where the cast included Norman Treigle, Richard Cassilly and Anne McKnight; Leopold Stokowski conducted Christopher West's production.

Lamar Stringfield

The Lamar Stringfield papers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill included Stringfield's correspondence with Robert Russell Bennett, Percy Goetschius, Edwin Franko Goldman, Morton Gould, Paul Green, Thor Johnson, Geoffrey O'Hara, Winfred Overholser, Jan Peerce, John Powell, Howard Richardson, Arthur Shepherd, and Leopold Stokowski in addition to many of his works.

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Leopold Stokowski was, at the time of the film's release, co-conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy.

Orin O'Brien

Before joining the New York Philharmonic, O'Brien performed with the New York City Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, and the American Symphony Orchestra (under Leopold Stokowski, under whom she played the double bass solo as principal bass in the U.S. premiere of Alberto Ginastera's Variaciones Concertantes, in 1962.

Shura Cherkassky

He appeared at the Hollywood Bowl with conductors such as Sir John Barbirolli and Leopold Stokowski, and he played the sound track (Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata) for the Bette Davis 1946 film Deception.

Sixten Ehrling

Unlike Leonard Bernstein or Leopold Stokowski, however, he did not take the role of innovator on the podium.

ST-X Ensemble

It was formed in New York City in 1994 by the conductor Charles Zachary Bornstein, who had served as an assistant conductor to Leopold Stokowski, and was the last private student of the Austrian conductor Hans Swarowsky.

William R. Trotter

He is an acknowledged expert on the works of Jean Sibelius, the subject of his "Winter Fire" novel, and Leopold Stokowski, whose Trotter-penned biography has gone as yet unpublished but has made the rounds of the Leopold Stokowski Society for many years.


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