Charismatic and controversial, Leopold Stokowski had a long and successful
career as a conductor who established the Philadelphia Orchestra in America as
one of the world's best and achieved lasting fame in the cinema as the arranger
of the music used in Walt Disney's animation epic 'Fantasia'. He worked with
major orchestras around the world and was founder of both the Hollywood Bowl
Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra. Known for the sumptuous
sound that he drew from his musicians, he was criticised by some for the way he
chose to amend composers' orchestratio...