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 ...

Holst: The Planets; Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso; Stravinsky: “Petrushka” Suite. Los Angeles Philharmonic; L’Orchestre de la Radiodiffusion Francaise; Berlin Philharmonic (EMI). In the late 1950s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...