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	Leopold Stokowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 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.
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	Penn Special Collections - Stokowski/Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stokowski embraced everything modern, and synthesized music, art, and dance in ways that were new to American audiences.
		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 /exhibits/rbm/stokowski (427 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).
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	Leopold Stokowski -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stokowski trained at the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal College of Music) Royal College of Music (which he entered in 1896, at the age of thirteen, one of the (The body of faculty and students of a college) 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 (Click link for more info and facts about Edward Elgar) Edward Elgar.
		Stokowski made his (The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania) Philadelphia debut on October 11, 1912.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leopold_stokowski.htm (1498 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)

	Commentary Magazine - The Vulgar Virtuoso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...Stokowski's Tristan "symphonic synthesis" is coupled on Pearl GEMM CD 9486 with orchestral preludes from Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin and three of the Wesendonck Lieder sung by Helen Traubel, plus addi- tional material from Tristan...
		...Stokowski rarely recorded music that was entirely incompatible with this "sound," and he sometimes laid on his trademark mannerisms too thickly...
		...It is Stokowski's prewar recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra that represent one of the most significant bodies of work to be preserved for musical posterity, and virtually none of these was reissued by RCA, either on LP or, later, on compact disc...
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	Bells for Stokowski \| Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
		Bells for Stokowski is a tribute to one of the most influential and controversial conductors of the 20th century.
		Stokowski was so intrigued by timbral and visual complexity that he often experimented with the seating of players by moving sections of the orchestra to different parts of the stage.
		Instead of changing the seating arrangement of the orchestra as Stokowski did, I evoke the sound of moving of sections of the orchestra to different parts of the stage by reconfiguring the orchestra via unusual orchestrations and moving between chamber and tutti densities.
	www.cabrillomusic.org /2002/missionbells.html (684 words)

	Customer Comments: Leopold Stokowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Stokowski Beethoven 7 is of great interest since it is one of the few presentations of the post-Toscanini NBC Orchestra in real stereo.
		Stokowski's approach to this music is majestic, epic, spiritual, and deeply emotional, as the music requires.
		Based on this performance, it is not hard to understand how Stokowski advanced so quickly from choral conductor in a London church to the orchestra conductor whose name will be associated forever with his greatest legacy, the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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	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)

	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)

	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)

	Review: Leopold Stokowski Conducts Sibelius
		Stokowski brilliantly conveys the drama of the piece; more than any performance I've heard, the blaring French horn which announces Lemminkäinen as he's about to slay the swan with his bow is a most masculine, foreboding hunter's horn.
		Stokowski's only recording of Sibelius' Seventh Symphony was made in 1940 with the All-American Youth Orchestra, but don't let the name fool you; The orchestra was painstakingly handpicked by Stokowski himself, and the musicians were between 18 to 26 years old.
		Stokowski is at his best here, contrasting the "fl-and-white" sound of the strings, with the dolce splash of orchestral colour of the winds and brass, which are undergirded by the 'cellos.
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	Stokowsky Leopold
		eopold Stokowski born Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawawicz was a conductor and arranger.
		Stokowski was buried at Marylebone Cemetery, East Finchley, in the north of London.
		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)

	AllRefer.com - Leopold Stokowski (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stokowski continued to conduct for part of each season until 1941.
		Stokowski was musical supervisor of Walt Disney's film Fantasia (1940), in which he also appeared.
		Stokowski was influential in the improvement of music-recording techniques.
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	Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherezade Stokowski CALA CACD 0536 [PSh] [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stokowski was himself clearly not pleased with many of his Tchaikovsky recordings as they are quite different from each other in general, as though the maestro never quit searching for the perfect balance.
		Stokowski is a fine Mozart conductor (and Vivaldi and Handel also, by the way) but he does not follow Tchaikovsky’s advice.
		Stokowski after all could never play anything exactly the same way twice, and in the RPO recording he segues the second movement onto the first with a held violin note.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Feb04/Rimsky_Sheherezade.htm (1259 words)

	Stokowski, Leopold Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leopold Stokowski - Reminiscence by violist Pamela Goldsmith of his supportiveness and positive influence on her career.
		Leopold Stokowski Collection - University of Pennsylvania Special Collections entry with facsimiles of a marked score, a letter from Ralph Vaughn Williams, and pages from his new musician auditions.
		Stokowski, Leopold Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Styles_Classical_Conductors_S_Stokowski,_Leopold.html (1781 words)

	Stokowski 4 - First Releases [JW]: Classical Reviews- February 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Are you nervous?" Stokowski’s question, addressed to the laughing Philadelphia audience in October 1935 as they launched themselves into a Pension Fund concert singsong of La Marseillaise, might equally well apply to the prospective purchaser of this disc.
		Though it is a necessarily haphazard compilation this thoroughly engaging CD collates previously unreleased recordings spanning the years 1927-44 and featuring three of the orchestras Stokowski led.
		The longest piece is a Stokowski favourite, Romeo and Juliet, with the quiet ending he advocated.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Feb02/STOKOWSKI4.htm (308 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 (607 words)

	THE STOKOWSKI EDITION, VII Music of France: Real Audio: Music & Arts CD-4778 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...this is Stokowski live, and consequently full of the unexpected: the transcendent ritardando at the end of Afternoon of a Faun for example.
		L'après-midi was a Stokowski favorite (he left five studio recordings of the work), and he persuades the Frankfurt orchestra to play in a lush, sensuous fasion.
		Stokowski recorded no works by Milhaud commercially, and it is good to have his idiomatic account of the brief Percussion Concerto.
	www.musicandarts.com /CD4778hc.html (250 words)

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		At the close of the finale the rush of adrenalin is thrilling, reminding one that Stokowski was the conductor to whom the composer entrusted the first performance."
		Notably, Stokowski gave the world-premiere performance of Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 3 in 1936 and this recording was the first time that he had returned to the work.
		Dido's Lament finds Stokowski coaxing and caressing precisely the sort of velvet sonorities that were common fare in his Philadelphia days and Rachmaninov's Vocalise is not only beautifully phrased, but strong on impulse.
	www.emiclassics.com /uk/stokov1.html (428 words)

	Encyclopedia: Leopold Stokowski
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		Sir Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 â€“ 23 February 1934) was an English composer, born in the small village of Lower Broadheath outside Worcester, Worcestershire, to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.
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	ArkivMusic \| Stokowski Transcriptions - Bach, Chopin, et al / Sawallisch, Philadelphia Orchestra
		Stokowski reworked pieces by many composers, and the transcriptions heard on this CD cast novel perspectives on their originals, not least because of their astounding variety and ingenuity.
		Stokowski's exceptional understanding of orchestral texture is clear from the two Debussy transcriptions heard here.
		Indeed, Stokowski's orchestral version of La Cathedrale engloutie, based on Debussy's tone portrait of the sunken Cathedral of Ys, is one of the most effective and memorable of his transcriptions.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=94809 (496 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach - Stokowski: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leopold Stokowski was one of the greatest conductors -- and musical geniuses -- of the 20th century.
		One of the pieces on this CD is Stokowski's arrangement of one of Schemelli songs by Bach, "Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh befallt dich in Gethsemane." A very simple song, I remember it as an exercise in figured bass at school.
		Stokowski was trained first as organist, came here to the US from England, worked at St. Bartholomew Church in New York, then discovered a conductor in himself.
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	BBC - Music / Profiles - Leopold Stokowski
		Always controversial, Stokowski was the epitome of the glamorous conductor - innovative and forward-looking he championed modern composers, wrote many transcriptions, experimented with sound recording and left behind a colourful and varied recorded legacy.
		Stokowski talking to Basil Moss about his approach to recording in different halls - from a 1969 Radio 4 interview.
		Listen to a BBC archive clip of Stokowski conducting Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis from May 1974.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/stokowski.shtml (448 words)

	Bach - Stokowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stokowski's arrangements are lyrical and dramatic, refreshing and romantic.
		Stokowski's "transcriptions" (there is debate about if he did all of them) have come full circle.
		Loved in his lifetime, deridded by critics (but still loved by audiences) after his death and finally accepted by all for the quality works they are.
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	andante boutique - richard wagner - leopold stokowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stokowski's forty minutes of orchestral excerpts from Parsifal constitute the most beautiful Parsifal performance on record — even, I would say, the most beautifully sung (though there are no human voices).
		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.
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