Bibliography
Compiled by Edward Johnson
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Music for All of Us
by Leopold Stokowski
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Published 1943 by Simon and Schuster,
New York.
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340 pages with one frontispiece illustration
of Stokowski.
Contains 40 Chapters (entitled "Music the Universal", "The Nature of Music", "The
Soul of Music", etc.)
Stokowski – A Counterpoint of View
by Oliver Daniel
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Published 1982 by Dodd, Mead & Co.,
New York.
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1090 pages; illustrated; includes a Bibliography, a Discography, a select list of Stokowski Premieres, and a list of his Orchestral Transcriptions.
Leopold Stokowski - A Profile
by Abram Chasins
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Published 1979 by Hawthorn Books Inc.,
New York, and Robert Hale, London.
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314 pages; illustrated; includes a Bibliography,
and a selective Discography of then-available Stokowski Recordings.
Leopold Stokowski
by Preben Opperby
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Published 1982 by Midas Books, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England and Hippocrene Books Inc., New York.
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288 pages; illustrated; includes a Bibliography, Discography and List of First Performances.
Stokowski
(in 'The Art of the Conductor' series)
by Paul Robinson
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Published 1977 by The Vanguard Press, Inc., Toronto, Canada, and MacDonald and Janes Publishers Ltd., London.
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154 pages; illustrated; includes a Select Bibliography and Discography.
The Mystery of Leopold Stokowski
by William Ander Smith
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Published 1990 by Associated University Presses, Inc., America, Canada and England.
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290 pages; illustrated; includes Selected Discography (chronologically arranged and reviewed) and a substantial List of Sources.
Stokowski - Essays in Analysis of his Art
Edited by Edward Johnson
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Published 1973 by Triad Press, London.
(Limited Edition).
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116 pages; illustrated; includes a Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult, and Essays by Ainslee Cox, Benjamin de Loache, John Georgiadis, Morton Gould, Bernard Herrmann, Hans Keller, David Measham, Andrzej Panufnik and Andre Previn; with a List of Transcriptions, Notable First Performances, a Filmography and a Discography.
Leopold Stokowski Discography
Compiled by John Hunt
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2nd Edition published 2006 in collaboration
with The Leopold Stokowski Society
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266 pages; illustrated.
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Copies are available from
www.johnhunt.malcolmfox.com
material on Stokowski
Twenty-Five Years of the Philadelphia Orchestra (1900-1925)
by Frances Anne Wister
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Published 1925; reprinted in 1970 by Books
for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York.
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254 pages; illustrated.
Bach, Beethoven and Bureaucracy: the case of the Philadelphia Orchestra
by Edward Arian
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Published 1971 by the University of Alabama Press.
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158 pages; no illustrations.
Those Fabulous Philadelphians: the Life and Times of a Great Orchestra
by Herbert Kupferberg
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Published 1969 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
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260 pages; illustrated; partial List of First Performances and a brief Discography of then-available Ormandy recordings.
Agitato - A Trek through the Musical Jungle
by Jerome Toobin (manager of the "Symphony of the Air", the former NBC Symphony Orchestra, from 1954-1963)
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Published 1975 by The Viking Press, New York.
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214 pages; no illustrations.
The Other Side of the Record
by Charles O'Connell (RCA's Music Director, 1930-1944)
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Published 1948 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
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318 pages; no illustrations.
Symphony Conductors of the U.S.A
by Hope Stoddard
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Published 1957 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York.
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406 pages; no illustrations.
International Gallery of Conductors
by Donald Brook
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Published 1951 by Rockliff Publishing Corporation, London.
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234 pages; illustrated.
The Great Conductors
by Harold C. Schonberg
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Published 1968 by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London.
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384 pages; illustrated.
Conductor's World
by David Wooldridge
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Published 1970 by Barrie & Rockliff, The Cressett Press, London.
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380 pages; illustrated.
Conversations with Conductors
Edited by Robert Chesterman
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Published 1976 by Robson Books Ltd., London.
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128 pages; illustrated.
Features Stokowski interviewed by Glenn Gould, and other interviews with Ansermet, Bernstein, Klemperer, and Walter.
The Musical Life
by Irving Kolodin
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Published 1959 by Victor Gollancz Ltd.,
London.
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266 pages; no illustrations.
The Maestro Myth
by Norman Lebrecht
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Published 1991 by Simon and Schuster Ltd., London.
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394 pages; illustrated.
An American Musician's Story
by Olga Samaroff Stokowski (Stokowski's
first wife).
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Published 1939 by W. W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York.
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326 pages; illustrated.
Composers, Conductors and Critics
by Claire R. Reis
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Published 1955 by Oxford University Press,
New York.
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264 pages; illustrated.
The Philadelphia Orchestra
A century of Music
Edited by John Ardoin
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Published 1999 by Temple University.
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256 pages; illustrated.
Stokowski and the Organ
by Rollin Smith
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Published 2004 by Pendragon Press,
Hillsdale, New York.
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300 pages; illustrated.
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A fascinating and comprehensive
survey of Stokowski's early years
as a church organist in London
and New York.
Fantasia
by John Culhane
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Published 1983 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
New York
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224 pages; fully colour illustrated.
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Comprehensive and detailed coverage of
the classic Walt Disney cartoon feature.
A beautifully illustrated story of
its creation and production.