Portrait of Leopold Stokowski, photographed by United Artists / Federal Films (1947), the file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (accessed: May 25, 2018).
Leopold Stokowski
, 1882 - 1997
Leopold Stokowski was an American conductor, with Polish and Irish roots. For many years, he was a music director in many musical institutions, inter alia the Philadelphia Orchestra, which accompanied under his command the animated stories in Fantasia with classical music. For this production he won an Oscar. He was also a founder of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra. Stokowski was a music guest in Carnegie Hall (1947) and was a conductor in One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937).
Bio prepared by Anna Mik, University of Warsaw, anna.m.mik@gmail.com
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