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When Conductor Leopold Stokowski turned 84 in April, the members of his American Symphony Orchestra presented him with a sapling to be planted on his small farm in New York State, where he spends each weekend tending his groves of trees. It was only appropriate, for Stokowski is something like the John ny Appleseed of symphonic music. In his nearly 60 years on the podium, he has cultivated more major orchestras and nurtured more young musicians than any other conductor...
Boss of the Works. When Stokowski formed the A.S.O. in 1962 (contributing $60,000 of his own money), few people thought that he could make a go of it in concert-sated Manhattan. They underestimated the old master builder...
...some of the thunder from their big brothers at the New York Philharmonic. The A.S.O.'s world premiere of Charles Ives's fiercely modern Fourth Symphony, for example, was the highlight of the U.S. symphony season last year. In fact, when it comes to championing modern music, Stokowski makes many of the younger conductors look like old fogies. Dissonance for dissonance, the A.S.O. has played a higher proportion of contemporary music than any other major U.S. orchestra...
MUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (London). The usual orchestral transcription of Mussorgsky's piano pieces contains subtle coloring by Ravel, but Leopold Stokowski has orchestrated his own version and recorded it with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in brassy sweeps of sound that have a bold and often wild impact. Quite unlike the bizarre, ornate drawings that inspired Mussorgsky in the first place...
...John Barbirolli, 66, whose solid musicianship, gained during a long career as conductor of such ensembles as the New York Philharmonic and Britain's Hallé Orchestra, compensates mightily for the lack of depth in his players. Mindful that attendance had skidded with the modernist programming of Leopold Stokowski (1955-61), Barbirolli plays it safe and sticks close to the classics, out of which he produces a sound as fresh and breezy as the Southwest itself...