Stokowski
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- proper noun
- /stoʊˈkɔːski/
- Among the conductors who have led the ensemble are Thomas Beecham, Sergiu Celibidache, Leopold Stokowski, and Bruno Walter.
- Leopold Stokowski
- Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra
- conductor Leopold Stokowski
Examples
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The musician in me thinks of how great Stokowski could make an orchestra sound and wonders if we'll ever see another conductor like him.
Academic text (2007) -
What impressed me most, however, was Stokowski himself.
Academic text (2007) -
I would like to leave a message for Miss Stokowski.
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Stokowski brought not only real joy to music making but also a sense of theater.
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I went to the showing in part because I played in that orchestra under Stokowski when I was still a student at Barnard College.
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Stokowski loved to be involved in more than just conducting at Carnegie Hall.
Academic text (2007) -
Orchestras can be like military organizations, but Stokowski's approach was to invite, not command.
Academic text (2007) -
She's off to Sweden, then Italy with Leopold Stokowski, the leonine conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Fiction book (1999) -
And Leopold Stokowski, in 1916, described the exclusion of women from symphony orchestras as an "incomprehensible blunder."
Academic text (1993) -
Leopold Stokowski was known for revolutionizing the sound of orchestral music with his innovative conducting style.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stokowski comes from Polish, where stok means 'slope' or 'hill' and the ending -ski means 'from' or 'of'. So the name originally meant 'someone from the slope', which is why it is a family name used to identify people like the conductor Leopold Stokowski.