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Conductors' Corner
Donald Macleod presents a week celebrating the contrasting careers of five 20th-century conductors.
Leopold Stokowski. Stokowski is always associated with the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia. A former organist, he turned the Philadelphia Orchestra into a supreme instrument and also had a long association with Hollywood, appearing in The Big Broadcast of 1937 and One Hundred Men and a Girl. Including:
Bach, orch Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Czech Philharmonic
Musorgsky, orch Stokowski A Night on the Bare Mountain
Philadelphia Orchestra

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Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductors:
Leopold Stokowski.
Source: Radio Times

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