Stokowski at 88 - TV Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9HLz5v_k0
To mark Leopold Stokowski's 88th birthday in 1970, a television documentary surveyed his life and career. In this programme, we see him rehearsing his own American Symphony Orchestra; dictating a letter to Andrzej Panufnik regarding the first performance of the composer's 'Universal Prayer'; auditioning a young violinist in his New York apartment; receiving a prestigious Gold Medal award from the American Academy; travelling to England by boat (he never flew) to record Beethoven's 5th Symphony with the London Philharmonic (not the London Symphony as incorrectly stated) for the Decca / London 'Phase-4' label, with producer Tony'D'Amato and chain-smoking engineer Arthur Lilley; watching a baseball game between the New York Philharmonic and American Symphony Orchestra; and being interviewed by Glenn Gould for Canadian radio.
The narrator mis-pronounces the Maestro's name (it should sound as if spelt "Stokoffski") but otherwise this is a well-produced programme. Remarkably, Stokowski lived to the ripe old age of 95 and was still energetically making records right up until a few weeks before he died in September 1977.
A separate TV programme consisting of some of the American Symphony rehearsal, parts of which are in this documentary, has also been uploaded here in its individual components: Barber's 'Adagio' for Strings; Rachmaninoff's 'Paganini' Rhapsody; Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony; and Beethoven's 'Leonore' No. 3 Overture.
Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition" arr: Stokowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBjpzkaD8JI