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Stokowski trained at the Royal College of Music (which he entered in 1896, at the age of thirteen, one of the college's youngest students ever).
Stokowski was a great success in Cincinnati, introducing the idea of "pop concerts" and conducting the United States premieres of new works by composers such as Edward Elgar.
Stokowski was buried at Marylebone Cemetery, East Finchley, in the north of London.
www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/leopold_stokowski.html   (1355 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski, All-American Youth Orchestra, Forever Young
Stokowski took full advantage of the AAYO's ability and desire to respond to his exclusive direction, and produced performances that went even beyond the interpretive extremes that were both the bane and the glory of his deeply personal art.
Stokowski was a capricious conductor who delighted in tweaking interpretive tradition, particularly in the standard repertoire.
Instead of the steady sensual buildup of the score, Stokowski's volume and tempo heave and lurch: he adds a huge swell of sound to the end of each repetition of the sinuous melody, and the whole thing is over in a mere twelve minutes (rather than a "normal" sixteen or so).
www.classicalnotes.net /columns/youthweb.html   (1640 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski (Conductor, Arranger) - Short Biography
Leopold Stokowski gave the orchestra an entirely new sound, popularly known as the "Philadelphia sound" or the "Stokowski Sound." Its foundation was a luxuriant, sonorous tone and an exacting attention to color.
A relentless innovator, Stokowski experimented with orchestral seating, famously lining up the string basses across the rear of the stage and, in an early instance, massing all the violins on the left side of the orchestra and the cellos on the right.
Following his tenure in Philadelphia, Leopold Stokowski directed several other ensembles, including the All-American Youth Orchestra (which he founded), the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic (both as co-conductor), the Houston Symphony Orchestra (1955-1960), and the American Symphony Orchestra, which he organized in 1962.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Stokowski-Leopold.htm   (820 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz April 18, 1882 in London, England, died September 13, 1977 in Nether Wallop, England) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air.
Stokowski rapidly garnered a reputation as a showman.
Stokowski also claimed to have made his own orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in which he omitted two of the movements from the score; the composer and arranger Lucien Cailliet actually created the orchestration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leopold_Stokowski   (1887 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski -- The Phase Four Recordings, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
Leopold Stokowski, alone among famous conductors, was fascinated by technology and was constantly in the forefront of each innovation throughout his long career, which extended from acoustic to quad.
Stokowski would undoubtedly be less pleased, though, with the straightforward CD transfers, which preserve all of the severe overload distortion of the original LPs.
Had Stokowski lived to the digital era, he surely would be back in the studio rerecording his core repertoire yet again in state of the art sound.
www.classicalnotes.net /reviews/stokowski.html   (990 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Leopold Stokowski was among the most important and influential conductors of the 20th century -- famed for the richly seductive sound of his ensembles, he was also a tireless promoter of new music, premiering key works from composers including Mahler, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff.
Born April 18, 1882 in London, Stokowski later studied at the Paris Conservatory, and upon relocating to the U.S. in 1905 signed on as organist and choirmaster at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City.
Although Stokowski exited from full-time duties in Philadelphia in 1936, he conducted part of each season for several years thereafter; he founded the All-American Youth Orchestra in 1940, and between 1942 and 1943 co-conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra alongside the legendary Arturo Toscanini.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/102/332/5/1023325.html   (312 words)

  
 Classical Net - The Leopold Stokowski Club - Biography
Stokowski's began his conducting career at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1909, at the young age of 27.
Stokowski's first recording was with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1917.
Stokowski was fascinated by the recording technology and embraced each new development.
www.classical.net /music/guide/society/lssa/stokybio.html   (764 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski, when I worked with him, looked very much like he did when the star of 'Fantasia', with a sheaf of white hair, combed straight back from his face, and a navy blue pin-striped suit, navy shirt (silk, no doubt).
Toward the middle of the year, a few of the youngest members of the orchestra (I, at 20, was the baby), were invited to appear with the maestro on a live television talk show with a newspaper columnist, Hy Gardner.
Stokowski was seated with the TV host at a table, and we were standing behind.
www.zvonar.com /PamelaGoldsmith/articles/Stokowski.html   (635 words)

  
 Theremin Vox - Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski (April 18, 1882 - September 13, 1977) (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Stokowski also ensured that the repretoire was broadened and updated.
Leopold Stokowski returned to England in 1972 and died there in 1977 in Nether Wallop, Hampshire at the age of 95.
www.thereminvox.com /article/articleview/148/1/3   (1139 words)

  
 Penn Special Collections - Stokowski/Introduction
One of the most influential conductors of his generation, Leopold Stokowski was at the same time one of the most controversial.
Leopold Stokowski was devoted to the performance of "modern" music and despite protestations from audiences and orchestra boards alike, he consistently programmed contemporary compositions alongside more canonical fare throughout his career.
Stokowski's unorthodoxy is perhaps his greatest legacy, for it was his willingness to take risks and challenge convention that occasioned his most significant triumphs.
www.library.upenn.edu /special/gallery/stokowski   (427 words)

  
 SoundStage! Leopold Stokowski - Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Dvorak
Leopold Stokowski studied at the Royal College of Music in London -- at 13, he was the youngest student there -- and his first professional engagement was as a church organist in London.
Stokowski's organ teacher at the RCM was Sir Walter Parratt, among whose students was also Ralph Vaughan Williams, ten years Stokowski's senior.
But, to reiterate, what really convinces me about this performance (as with Stokowski's two earlier recordings, his 1952 once available on a Sony reissue, and the 1974 live Royal Albert Hall performance, on a BBC disc) is that he gets right to the heart of the matter.
www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev069.htm   (702 words)

  
 Stokowsky Leopold
eopold Stokowski born Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawawicz was a conductor and arranger.
Stokowski was the developer of these new aspects of the Stereophonic recording techniques.
eopold Stokowski has made a deep study of the nature of each instrument in the orchestra, its possibilities for future development, how it could be placed in the orchestra so that it would sound to best advantage separately, and in relation to all the other instruments and choirs of the orchestra.
www.maurice-abravanel.com /stokowsky_leopold.html   (2433 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra - 4 CD set from Music & Arts
The association of Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) with the Philadelphia Orchestra produced the 20th Century's first substantial repertory committed to sound recordings.
Stokowski had recorded this movement with his orchestra in 1922, but it was not issued, nor was the project carried through for the centennial of the composer's birth.
Most unusual is Stokowski's arrangement of Handel's sonata for his second Chandos Anthem as an Overture in D Minor (1935), permitting us to savor the Philadelphia string trill and the Kincaid-Tabuteau combination.
www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1057   (1200 words)

  
 LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI - Decca Recordings 1965-1972 DECCA 475 145-2 [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2004 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Stokowski seems, in this work, to be building a bridge across the golden firmament such is its majestic awe and regal pacing.
Stokowski here shows lessons learnt from the Rachmaninov works he championed such as the Third Symphony as well as ladling on the starry treatment.
Stokowski is quite understated at first - almost modest - much the same as he is in the finale.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Feb04/Stokowski_Decca.htm   (2476 words)

  
 LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
We are indebted to Cala for issuing these important Stokowski recordings all of which are appearing on CD for the first time.
Stokowski didn't use the regular concert arrangements of the Götterdämmerung excerpts, including music not heard in other recordings - except for Charles Gerhardt's Chesky release.
This was Stokowski's third recording of Rienzi Overture, his first two being with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1919 and 1927; he would record it again in 1973 with the Royal Philharmonic).
classicalcdreview.com /lsnyp.htm   (465 words)

  
 classical music - andante - leopold stokowski: conductor
But the great pioneer was Stokowski, who worked over every detail of his recordings from the beginning — from reseating the musicians in unaccustomed places to assisting with the engineering to learning as much as he could about the recording process himself.
By 1932, Stokowski had made hours of experimental stereo recordings for RCA; by 1940, he was working in Hollywood with Walt Disney on Fantasia, and he lived long enough to experiment with quadrophonic sound.
Stokowski's restlessness — his fascination with impression both in the concert hall and on record — led to disparagement in some purist circles.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=20610   (746 words)

  
 classical music - andante - wagner: leopold stokowski
Stokowski's greatest recordings — his "symphonic" Wagner — are reborn.
So, while I'm not convinced that Wagner would have necessarily approved of Stokowski's occasional creative liberties with his scores, the fact remains that composer and conductor were in rare sympathy as shamanistic showmen.
Unlike most conductors, who traditionally begin their careers as pianists, violinists or cellists, Stokowski was an organist —; and he "played" the 100-odd men he had handpicked for the Philadelphia Orchestra as if they were separate pipes in the most sumptuous, versatile and smoothly blended organ ever devised.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21328   (392 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski — FactMonster.com
Stokowski studied in England and at the Paris Conservatory.
Stokowski continued to conduct for part of each season until 1941.
Stokowski was influential in the improvement of music-recording techniques.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0846798.html   (252 words)

  
 Classical Net - Societies - The Leopold Stokowski Club
The Leopold Stokowski Club (formerly the Leopold Stokowski Society of America, L.S.S.A.) is a non-profit corporation founded in 1983.
The society's original purpose was to publish articles about the Stokowski legacy, produce an annual recording and to encourage the major recording companies to reissue Stokowski recordings.
This was selected as a testament to Stokowski who was to record this symphony with the National Philharmonic but died just before the recording sessions.
www.classical.net /music/guide/society/lssa   (618 words)

  
 Penn Special Collections - Music/Leopold Stokowski
The Leopold Stokowski Collection of Scores includes over 900 scores and sets of parts marked by the conductor for performance.
During his tenure as conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, from 1962 to 1972, Leopold Stokowski held daily auditions in his apartment as he search for the most talented young musicians he could find.
He maintained records of these sessions, indicating his impressions of the audition and the suitability of each performer for a position in the Orchestra.
www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/music/leopold.html   (140 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bach - Stokowski: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Leopold Stokowski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Leopold Stokowski was one of the greatest conductors -- and musical geniuses -- of the 20th century.
Stokowski was one of the all-time, all-time greats - and to my ear - this recording is his best ever.
Stokowski's arrangements are lyrical and dramatic, refreshing and romantic.
www.amazon.com /Bach-Stokowski-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B000002S9M   (1237 words)

  
 Brazil - BRAZZIL - Stokowski's Brazilian Adventure - Brazilian Music - February 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
In the summer of 1940, Stokowski (1882-1977) was still the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he'd been conducting with innovative flair since 1912.
At the Stokowski session, where he made his first vocal recordings, Cartola was accompanied by Mangueira composer/guitarist Aloísio Dias; a group of Mangueira percussionists including Preguiça, China, and Negro; and the samba school's pastoras, a feminine chorus made up of Neuma, Cecéia, Nadir, Ornélia, Guiomar, Nesilia, and Neguinha.
And considering Stokowski's zeal for "the most legitimate native Brazilian music," the descriptions attached to the compositions are disappointingly inadequate.
www.brazzil.com /musfeb00.htm   (7027 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski Transcriptions = MOUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain; Entr’acte to Act IV of Khovantschina; ...
Leopold Stokowski Transcriptions = MOUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain; Entr’acte to Act IV of Khovantschina; Symphonic Synthesis fr.
For those of us raised on the so-called “Stokowski Sound,” this album from a conducting acolyte of Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977), Jose Serebrier, revitalizes a concept the older conductor nurtured: the art of the orchestral transcription, scores Stokowski adapted for his Philadelphia Orchestra, 1922-1941.
Stokowski loved to arrange folk and traditional melodies; besides his 1933 study on Russian Christmas motifs, he later organized Brazilian folk tunes for a Philadelphia tour to South America.
www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=424   (552 words)

  
 Leopold Stokowski News
News about Leopold Stokowski continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
As I was soaring through the skies of Pennsylvania the other day, my iPod served up Leopold Stokowski's 1937 recording of Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Un retrato del legendario director de orquesta Leopold Stokowski, realizado por la pintora Dorothy Brett; los dibujos de Albert Wainwright del vestuario para su pantomima The Key of the Kingdom o una silla Art...
www.topix.net /who/leopold-stokowski   (279 words)

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