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About The Same Time Conductor
Leopold Stokowski was involved in launching the Curtis Institute.
Stokowski's first orchestral transcription of Bach appeared in 1927.
Stokowski's recording successes lasted for more than four decades.
About the same time conductor Leopold Stokowski has involved in launching the Curtis Institute, he also began a string of recording successes that would last for more than four decades: his unique orchestral transcriptions of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, the first of which appeared in 1927. We'll hear Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra perform "Ein Feste Burg is unser Gott" (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) (Angel/EMI CDM-7 6
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