In 1937, she met conductor Leopold Stokowski, with whom she had a highly publicized friendship or romance while travelling throughout Europe in 1938.

In 2004, many lacquer masters were discovered in the vaults of Sony Music Studios in New York which consisted of recordings that Leopold Stokowski and his All-American Youth Orchestra had made for Columbia Records in Hollywood in the summer of 1941.

The Orchestra has also had many distinguished guest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Edward Elgar, Morton Gould, Walter Hendl, Erich Kunzel, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Eugene Ormandy, André Previn, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Slatkin, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Strauss, George Szell, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bruno Walter, and John Williams.

After Krips's resignation the orchestra had worked with a few leading conductors, including Klemperer, Stokowski, Jascha Horenstein and Pierre Monteux, but also with many less eminent ones.

Great and influential conductors of the middle 20th century like Leopold Stokowski ( 1882 – 1977 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1885 – 1973 ), Herbert von Karajan ( 1908 – 1989 ) and Leonard Bernstein ( 1918 – 1990 ) – incidentally, the first American conductor to attain greatness and international fame – had widely varied techniques.

The concerto was premiered on December 6, 1940, by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski with Louis Krasner as the soloist ( Krasner had previously given the premiere of the Violin Concerto by Schoenberg's pupil, Alban Berg ).

When conductor Leopold Stokowski invited noted African-American opera singer Shirley Verrett to sing with the Houston Symphony in the early 1960s, he had to rescind his invitation when the orchestra board refused to accept a black soloist.

Stokowski was an enthusiast for new and improved methods of sound reproduction and had already participated in experimental stereophonic sound recordings in 1931 and 1932, and a live, long distance demonstration of multi-channel sound a year later.

The set-up used for the recording of The Sorcerer's Apprentice was abandoned, and it was decided to record with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which Stokowski had directed from 1912 to 1938, at the Academy of Music concert hall in Philadelphia, the orchestra's home known for its good acoustics.

After consulting with musician friends including Josef Hofmann and Leopold Stokowski on how best to help musically gifted young people, Bok purchased three mansions on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square and had them joined and renovated.

When the composer's aunt, Nadezhda Galli-Shohat, first heard the work at its American premiere by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, she recognized in it many fragments she had heard young Mitya play as a child.

When the conductor Leopold Stokowski invited her to sing with the Houston Symphony in the early 1960s, he had to rescind his invitation when the orchestra board refused to accept a black soloist.

The recordings had been made by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, who was always interested in sound reproduction technology.

At Yale, she majored in English, and also sang sporadically with the Yale Glee Club ; she had joined the Glee Club when additional singers were needed for a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, under the direction of Leopold Stokowski.

The concert was so successful that Stokowski had to repeat the complete work.

From the mid 1920s onwards Bliss moved more into the established English musical tradition, leaving behind the influence of Stravinsky and the French modernists, and in the words of the critic Frank Howes, " after early enthusiastic flirtations with aggressive modernism admitted to a romantic heart and given rein to its less and less inhibited promptings " He received two major commissions from American orchestras, the Introduction and Allegro ( 1926 ) for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski and Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ) for the Boston Symphony and Pierre Monteux.

The United States premiere of the opera was given by the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company on March 19, 1931 at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House under the baton of Leopold Stokowski, and, while the UK premiere at Queen's Hall, London on 14 March 1934 was a concert performance only, the opera was given its first staged performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 22 January 1952.

Its first performance was given February 6, 1944 at NBC Orchestra's Radio City Habitat in New York City, by Leopold Stokowski and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, with Eduard Steuermann at the piano ( Anon ).

Performances by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra were recorded in 1931 and 1932 using telephone lines between the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the labs in New Jersey.

Leopold Stokowski | Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the March 2, 1916 American premiere of Gustav Mahler | Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand | 8th Symphony.

The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski ; seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.

He happened to meet Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1912, at Chasen's restaurant in Hollywood, and talked about his plans for the short.

On January 18, 1939, Stokowski signed an eighteen-month contract with Disney to conduct the remaining pieces with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Disney was required to obtain permission from Stokowski, who initially rejected the deal unless the Philadelphia Orchestra Association received a share of the royalties.

A workprint of the original was discovered and Clair de Lune was restored in 1992, complete with the original soundtrack of Stokowski with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

But in 1936 he was passed over in both-first in Philadelphia, where Eugene Ormandy succeeded Stokowski at the Philadelphia Orchestra, and then in New York, where Toscanini's departure left a vacancy at the New York Philharmonic but John Barbirolli and Artur Rodzinski were engaged in preference to Klemperer.

* April 9-Leopold Stokowski conducts the world premiere of Edgar Varèse's Amériques, with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Victor expanded its American orchestral recording program by making recordings of the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karl Muck and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski in 1917 ; Victor's relationship with Stokowski and Philadelphia remained firm for decades.

Victor quickly recorded the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Stokowski in a series of electrical recordings, initially at its Camden, New Jersey studios and then in Philadelphia's Academy of Music.

Rachmaninoff himself, a noted interpreter of his own works, played the solo piano part at the piece's premiere at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 7, 1934 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

Rachmaninoff, Stokowski, and the Philadelphia Orchestra made the first recording, on December 24, 1934, at RCA Victor's Trinity Church Studio in Camden, New Jersey.

Stokowski later made amends by giving her a prestigious date with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

An agreement signed by Disney and Stokowski on December 16, 1937 allowed the conductor to " select and employ a complete symphony orchestra " for the recording.

The first recording was made by Leopold Stokowski with the Philadelphia Orchestra for RCA Victor in December 1940.

) Under the name Deep Tides, Leopold Stokowski orchestrated The Tides of Manaunaun as the first of four Tales of Our Countryside ( aka Four Irish Tales ), which he recorded in 1941.

So Leopold Stokowski was engaged on a three-year contract instead and served as the NBC Symphony's music director from 1941 until 1944.

***** Gloria Vanderbilt ( born 1924 ) m. Pasquale (" Pat ") DiCicco ( 1941 ; divorced 1945 ); m. Leopold Stokowski ( 1945 ; divorced 1955 ); m. Sidney Lumet ( 1956 ; divorced 1963 ); m. Wyatt Emory Cooper ( 1963 ; Wyatt Cooper died in 1978 ).

* A recording with Basil Rathbone as narrator, performed by the All-American Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski ( Avid Master Series, 1941 ); audio files restored by Bob Varney.

Leopold Stokowski served as principal conductor from 1941-1944 on a three-year contract following a dispute between Toscanini and NBC.

The recordings were originally issued ( monophonically ) as " Leopold Stokowski and his orchestra ," but reissued as " members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

When the NBC Symphony was reorganized in the fall of 1954 as the Symphony of the Air, it continued to record for RCA, as well as other labels, usually with Leopold Stokowski.

The earliest American performance to have survived in recorded form was the broadcast of March 14, 1943 by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski.