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 ...

Composed in 1888 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade is one of the most popular works in the Russian repertoire. Under the baton of Aziz Shokhakimov the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg ...

When I was 17 Leopold Stokowski premiered my First Symphony as a last-minute replacement for the still-unplayable Fourth Symphony by Charles Ives. He took a big chance because he had invited the world ...

More than most people who have attained the age of eighty-six, Leopold Stokowski dislikes thinking of himself as an old man. In a famous incident in 1955, when he was a mere seventy-three, he was cut ...