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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 18 January 2015. Leopold Stokowski's music has been featured on 22 episodes.

Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s Fantasia.

Stokowski appeared as himself in the motion picture The Big Broadcast of 1937, conducting two of his Bach transcriptions. That same year he also conducted and acted in One Hundred Men and a Girl, with Deanna Durbin and Adolphe Menjou. In 1939, Stokowski collaborated with Walt Disney to create the motion picture for which he is best known: Fantasia. He conducted all the music (with the exception of a "jam session" in the middle of the film) and included his own orchestrations for the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria segments. Stokowski even got to talk to (and shake hands with) Mickey Mouse on screen, although he would later say with a smile that Mickey Mouse got to shake hands with him. Most of the music was recorded in the Academy of Music, using multi-track stereophonic sound. Stokowski also appeared in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall along with Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Ezio Pinza and other great classical musicians of the day.

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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 18 January 2015. Leopold Stokowski's music has been featured on 22 episodes.

Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s Fantasia.

Stokowski appeared as himself in the motion picture The Big Broadcast of 1937, conducting two of his Bach transcriptions. That same year he also conducted and acted in One Hundred Men and a Girl, with Deanna Durbin and Adolphe Menjou. In 1939, Stokowski collaborated with Walt Disney to create the motion picture for which he is best known: Fantasia. He conducted all the music (with the exception of a "jam session" in the middle of the film) and included his own orchestrations for the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria segments. Stokowski even got to talk to (and shake hands with) Mickey Mouse on screen, although he would later say with a smile that Mickey Mouse got to shake hands with him. Most of the music was recorded in the Academy of Music, using multi-track stereophonic sound. Stokowski also appeared in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall along with Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Ezio Pinza and other great classical musicians of the day.

Original source: Last.fm

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Clair De Lune = Moonlight
Leopold Stokowski, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Debussy
Victor Red Seal1940
Prelude In D Minor, Op. 28, No. 24
Wagner, Chopin, Thomas Canning, Leopold Stokowski, The Houston Symphony Orchestra
Everest1960
Neptune, The Mystic
Leopold Stokowski, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, The Roger Wagner Chorale, Holst
Capitol Records0
Pas De Deux
Tchaikovsky, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
Decca1966
Mercury, The Winged Messenger
Leopold Stokowski, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, The Roger Wagner Chorale, Holst
Capitol Records0
Liebestod
Wagner, Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Orchestra
Victor Red Seal1943
Das Rheingold (Excerpts)
Wagner, Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Orchestra
Victor Red Seal1937
Symphony No. 4
Leopold Stokowski, American Symphony Orchestra, Ives
Columbia Masterworks1965
Symphony No. 3 In F Major, Opus 90
Brahms, Stokowski, Houston Symphony Orchestra
Everest1960
The Four Seasons, Op. 8
Vivaldi, Leopold Stokowski, The New Philharmonia Orchestra
London Records0