Music: Youth Orchestra

Of all the big-name, foreign-name maestros who lead U. S. symphony orchestras, the most typically, most restlessly American is a British-born Irish-Pole: Leopold Antony Stokowski. Bored with the daily routine of polishing up well-known classics, Stokowski long ago jumped the fence of the conventional musical pasture and wandered far afield. He rewrote symphonic oomph into Bach fugues, started adding weird electrical instruments to his orchestra, played the Communist Internationale at a Philadelphia symphony concert. When, four years ago, Stokowski retired from the chief conductorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra and went to Hollywood...

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