Talk:Leopold Stokowski

message: Stokowski was born in England, his father Polish, his mother British. Naturalized American in 1915. Also known for his colourful orchestrations of several Bach organ works (the best-known of which is probably the Toccata and Fugue in D minor). His orchestration of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'- best known in the Ravel orchestration - sometimes gets an airing and he also compiled a Symphonic Synthesis on Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde'.
::So why is there nothing on the page about his huge amount of transcriptions? His accompliments in them are surely worthjy of inclusion, as they are still today reguarded highly as being some of the best (Pictures not withstanding...) Melodia Chaconne 11:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I am possibly non-current on my information about Stokowski's transcriptions, I believe that there is a controversy about how much he is responsible for them during the Philadelphia years and how much Lucien Caillet is. The present article is overly simplistic in its presentation, limiting the controversy to the sole case of Pictures At An Exhibition and stating baldly that the work IS by Caillet. My sources indicate that Caillet later claimed credit for ALL the Stokowski transcriptions of the Philadelphia era and later produced his own transcription of Pictures for Eugene Ormandy, an orchestration which is inferior, according to many critics, to the earlier "Mussorgsky-Stokowski" version. Caillet was given credit during the Stokowski era as the orchestral arranger for the Philadelphia. Stokowski continued to produce transcriptions well past the Philadelphia days and used other orchestral arrangers as collaborators. His method appears to have been to give a detailed markup of a piece to the arranger, who would then realize a complete score based on Stokowski's markup. Caillet believed his contribution was much more substantial than simply realizing Stokowski's wishes. While this may indeed be true in some senses, the later Stokowski transcriptions form a cohesive oeuvre together with the Philadelphia ones, and Caillet's later arrangements, both for Ormandy and for his own work in motion pictures, have an orchestral sound and texture much different from the disputed Stokowski arrangements. I believe that the article should be revised to include an account of the controversy along these lines, utilizing the latest research. Gregoriusu 10:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bio question

message: Since there are literally millions of copies of the DVD and VHS versions of Disney's
first Fantasia in circulation, circa September, 2014, it makes no sense to call for a citation of the segue from Mussorgsky's work into the Ave Maria. There are probably too many calls for citations needed in the article as a whole - but in inappropriate places. There certainly is a need for a few more citations overall here.Sidney Orr (talk) 02:09, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Out the supposedly four versions by Mussurgsky the first one (for piano and orchestra) was already lost when Rimsky-Korsakov orchestrated it. The third and fourth are the same (for choir and orchestra), differ only in lyrics. RK based his on the fourth, and so did Stokowski. The second version is quite different and with a totally different form. AdamChapman 11:01, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Night on Bald Mountain 

message: Oscar Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar, Pocket Books 1969 (reprint of G.P. Putnam 1968), p. 110 () reports (second-hand, as an anecdote) that when he worked as an organist in NYC he went by the name Leo Stokes, and that he only took the name Stokowski because he knew that Mrs. Taft would prefer a more "European" conductor. I tend to trust Levant on things he says from personal knowledge, but in this case it's just "I met a concert manager who told me an interesting story", so I'm not sure if we should credit it any more than if a concert manager told us an interesting story. Still, someone might want to look for documentary evidence that he worked under the name Leo Stokes. - Jmabel | Talk 21:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stokes 

message: popular culture section is just another phrase for trivia, as evidenced by the simple interchangeable name. it is unencyclopaedic, and as described in the tag, should integrated into the article or removed. --emerson7 | Talk 23:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; "In popular culture" is just a commonly-used disguise around here (in Wikipedia in general) for the piling-on of trivia. +ILike2BeAnonymous 00:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the guy Bugs Bunny was portraying on that one Looney Tunes episode, right? Jared (t)  19:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, he's the one. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 14:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Popular culture" 

message: An affair with Greta Garbo?? Could someone please cite a source? BartBassist (talk) 23:09, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Affair with Greta Garbo 

message: Google defines it as: Splendid and expensive-looking. Merriam-Webster defines it as: extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent. Not really sure that's the best adjective to describe sound. If someone wants to justify its use, I'll leave it be. Otherwise, it should get changed. Daniel J Simanek (talk) 08:20, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sumptuous 

message: Regarding Stokowski's early life, nothing mentioned here about Christian baptism, godparents, first communion, etc. This raises the question if perhaps, his parents had a dispute about early religious education that never got resolved. Nevertheless, he must have been a competent musician and composer but I wonder if he was undecided of apprehensive about joining a specific denomination.
If you view the image of Stokowski's headstone in London, there is no cross inscribed on it.
Musicwriter (talk) 01:22, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious affiliation 

message: "However, despite living into totally [sic] advanced old age, he died of a heart attack the following year in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, at 95." What, pray tell, is "totally advanced old age"? Autodidact1 (talk) 10:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [T]otally [''sic''] advanced old age 

message: Why is there a photograph of Edward Elgar on Leopold Stokowski's article page? Maineartists (talk) 00:31, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  rhetorical question 

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message: For what it's worth: the Collins Encyclopedia of Music, edition 1976, states his birth name as Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, son of a Polish father and a British mother. Mention is also made of his habit of speaking with a fake Slavic accent, trying to present himself as a Polish or at least Middle-European conductor, which of course he wasn't. Maybe he thought he could fool the Americans into confusing a British conductor with a Slavic conductor: for them it's all Europe. Who knows. (This is not meant to imply that he wasn't sincere in other matters.) --Hansung02 (talk) 21:49, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth name