When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before ...
The kind of reward that pinch-hitters dream of came last week to Eugene Ormandy, young Hungarian conductor who a month ago was called upon to substitute for Arturo Toscanini in Philadelphia (TIME, Nov ...
Here are two Christmas favorites with impressive forces behind them: the carols "Away in a Manger" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus, and conductor Eugene ...
Conductor Leonard Slatkin and the BBC Symphony put together a compilation recording of music by Bach, transcribed for orchestra. As it happens, another conductor made each of those transcriptions. We ...