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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Napoleon said the baton of a field marshal was hidden in the knapsack of every soldier. Leopold Stokowski, Little Corporal of orchestra directors, believes the baton of a conductor may be concealed in ...

Leopold Stokowski transcribed the works of many composers for orchestra. Perhaps none are as famous or well-crafted as his transcription of several pieces by J.S. Bach. This hour opens with "Sleepers, ...

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 ...

The conductor Leopold Stokowski was a man of tantalising contradictions. As a performer he was a perfectionist but seemed unconcerned with the liberties that he took when rearranging original works ...