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Pioneers of Musical Pan-Americanism: Leopold Stokowski

For a five-year period, from 1936 to 1941, Leopold Stokowski shared the conductor’s podium of the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy. However, Stokowski’s constant tinkering with the orchestra, such as his once telling the players to sit on stage wherever they wanted, led to increasing acrimony between the two conductors. In fact, by near the …

Some Thoughts on the Use of Terms and Labels

For all intents and purposes, today’s undergraduate music majors in the United States are exposed to little or no information about the classical music of Latin America. For instance, in my copy of the eighth edition of the Burkholder History of Western Music, under the heading, “The Americas,” a grand total of two and a …