Forty-seven years after his death—Good God, was 1977 really that long ago?—the jury of the classical world is still out on Leopold Stokowski. He infuriated some musicians and critics while thrilling others. He always seemed to be part charlatan, as much in his phony-but-elusive “European” accent as in his insistence on conducting without a baton […]

Leopold Stokowski: The Technicolor Maestro