Thursday, April 19, 2012

Stitched Portraits: Leopold Stokowski

The first known conductor to drop the baton and use his hands, he horrified purists with his liberal changes to classical works. During his lifetime he performed many new compositions and even shook Mickey Mouse's hand in the film, Fantasia. Although he would describe it as Mickey Mouse shaking his hand.

Stokowski (and hands):





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