A century after the famed composer wed Ellin Mackay, a Catholic heiress, their marriage offers a window into how Jewish ...

The Reading Railroad Heritage Museum’s Nostalgic Christmas Trains exhibit is open every weekend through Jan. 11. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 4 Sundays. The museum is at 500 S.

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 ...

QUITE a few old friends are turning up in new recordings. For instance, Rimski-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade,” whose latest appearance is under the auspices of the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by ...

The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The stars are shining with the Philadelphia Orchestra for its 125th birthday season. From pianist Emmanuel Ax to cellist Yo Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman, some of the ...

Looney Tunes will take the Hollywood Bowl by storm on Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12, as the beloved film-and-live-orchestra concert Bugs Bunny at the Symphony returns to the world-famous venue ...

Gloria Vanderbilt with her two sons Anderson Cooper and Carter Vanderbilt Cooper in March 1976 in New York City ; Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper at Barnes & Noble Union Square on April 7, 2016 ...

Gloria Vanderbilt is best remembered as a socialite, writer and fashion trailblazer from one of America’s most storied families, but she was also a mom to four sons. Vanderbilt was married four times, ...

Night after Toscanini’s farewell (see above), a tribute was paid him over the radio by Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who referred to the Italian maestro as “the supreme master of all conductors,” ...

Long before there were influencers, there was Gloria Vanderbilt. Sometimes described in the social media era as an “original influencer,” perhaps it was a fitting turn of events when the American ...