When Conductor Leopold Stokowski turned 84 in April, the members of his American Symphony Orchestra presented him with a sapling to be planted on his small farm in New York State, where he spends each weekend tending his groves of trees. It was only appropriate, for Stokowski is something like the John ny Appleseed of symphonic music. In his nearly 60 years on the podium, he has cultivated more major orchestras and nurtured more young musicians than any other conductor.
In recognition of this, the American Council for Nationalities Service last week...
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