Summary: "Leopold Stokowski" As a conductor, and the man who probably re-invented the concert-going experience for North-American audiences in the first quarter of the 20th century, Leopold Stokowski was a man of many passions: avant-garde and contemporary music (he personally conducted dozens of world premieres of works that are today well enshrined into the concert repertoire), baroque music (trained as an organist, Stokowski seems to have a great fondness for baroque music, though the sound is dated when viewed through the HIP prism) and concert showpieces (his many transcriptions of works of the Baroque and Romantic composers, which he programmed for his great Philadelphia Orchestra and for himself to play with the greatest ensembles in the world). Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/Pcast122
