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Definition of Stokowski
1. Noun. United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977).
Generic synonyms: Conductor, Director, Music Director
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stokowski
Literary usage of Stokowski
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok, John Louis Haney (1921)
"Bok and his wife of the desire of Leopold Stokowski, who had recently become ...
"I wish you would let Stokowski come out and explain to you what he is ..."
2. Variations by James Huneker (1921)
"been a long race, and his a sober victory. Leopold Stokowski is a pocket edition
of Nikisch, a Nikisch without genius. He is the ideal primadonna ..."
3. The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty by Edward William Bok (1922)
""I wish you would let Stokowski come out and explain to you what he is trying to
do," ... But Bok had no desire to meet Stokowski. He mentally pictured the ..."
4. The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty by Edward William Bok (1920)
""I wish you would let Stokowski come out and explain to you what he is trying to
do," ... But Bok had no desire to meet Stokowski. He mentally pictured the ..."
5. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"There were Sonya Stokowski, daughter of Leopold Stokowski, the conductor; Mary
Barthelmess, daughter of Richard Barthelmess and Mary Hay, ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"In 1911 she married the conductor Stokowski (see below). See art. *Sampaix, Léon (b.
Belgium, 1878), from 1900 was piano-teacher at the Peabody Conservatory ..."
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