STOKOWSKI (Leopold Stanislaw Antoni, 1887-1977, Conductor)

Programme Signed 'Leopold Stokowski' on the inside front cover, for a programme at the Metropolitan Opera House of a Miracle Play based on the St Matthew Passion, in aid of creating a Fund for the Starving Children of the World to be set up and operated by the American Friends Service Committee, 26 pages folio, New York, 9th April

Stokowski was born in London of a Polish father. After studying at the Royal College of Music he was organist and choirmaster at St. James's, Piccadilly, 1902-1905. He then moved to America where he conducted the Cincinnati and Philadelphia Orchestras between 1908 and 1936.

Item Date:  1943

Stock No:  39874      £75

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