This piece appeared in the Houston Chronicle on May 1, 1955. The headline and words are reprinted as they ran then. The future of orchestral muscle in Houston will rest, beginning next fall, in the ...

As the maestro steps out, his shock of white hair and regal manner draw hushed gasps from the orchestra. “Leopold! Leopold!” Dispensing with the baton, he uses his hands to conjure music with a ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra is bringing together strange bedfellows – its own legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski and the art visionary Albert Barnes. A series of concerts and events shows how the ...

A century ago, a London-born conductor with Polish and Irish roots received a conducting offer from the Philadelphia Orchestra. He accepted, and a golden age of music-making began. This month, the ...

At the time, 1929, Leopold Stokowski held the baton, bringing the orchestra into the modern age through experimentation — primarily by programming new music, but also with his radical ideas of how to ...

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 ...

“If by the number of appearances in films and postcards we judge the most iconic of Hollywood landmarks, the palm has to go to the Hollywood Bowl,” Leo Braudy writes in “The Hollywood Sign.” But the ...

The audiences that attend the Friday concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra are famous for their nonchalance. Lovers of music who have visited Philadelphia recount with indignation how rudely the ...

When Leopold Stokowski is not making curious things happen, they are often being made to happen to him. Last week the picturesque maestro’s Mexican tour continued in an ornate fuss & feathers of ...