This piece appeared in the Houston Chronicle on May 1, 1955. The headline and words are reprinted as they ran then. The future of orchestral muscle in Houston will rest, beginning next fall, in the ...

At the time, 1929, Leopold Stokowski held the baton, bringing the orchestra into the modern age through experimentation — primarily by programming new music, but also with his radical ideas of how to ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra is bringing together strange bedfellows – its own legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski and the art visionary Albert Barnes. A series of concerts and events shows how the ...

As the maestro steps out, his shock of white hair and regal manner draw hushed gasps from the orchestra. “Leopold! Leopold!” Dispensing with the baton, he uses his hands to conjure music with a ...

The celebrated and communicative English-born American conductor, Leopold Stokowski, was born into a Polish and Irish mother, but was raised as an Englishman. His famous, vaguely foreign, accent ...

Famed conductor Leopold Stokowski introduced millions to the music of Bach through his extravagant orchestral arrangements. From a concert at the Aspen Music Festival, the orchestra called the ...

When Leopold Stokowski is not making curious things happen, they are often being made to happen to him. Last week the picturesque maestro’s Mexican tour continued in an ornate fuss & feathers of ...

The audiences that attend the Friday concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra are famous for their nonchalance. Lovers of music who have visited Philadelphia recount with indignation how rudely the ...