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 ...

"All passes - art alone endures," the sobering old saying goes. But sometimes, art has strange ways of enduring. It can lie dormant for years, as if waiting for the right moment to emerge. Then, when ...

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 ...

Fifty years after the great conductor Leopold Stokowski founded the American Symphony Orchestra, his vision of a fine ensemble continues under the baton of Leon Botstein, who this year celebrates two ...

Brooke Knoll is the digital audience specialist and afternoon host for Classical KC. You can reach her at brooke@classicalkc.org.

When Conductor Leopold Stokowski turned 84 in April, the members of his American Symphony Orchestra presented him with a sapling to be planted on his small farm in New York State, where he spends each ...

When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before ...

1025 Westview St. was designed for composer Leopold Stokowski but ultimately built for electrical engineer Morris Leeds. Oscar Mikols To continue reading this content ...