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Darrell Acree <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:50:09 -0500
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Robert Stumpf wrote:

>Stokowski recorded, indeed performed, little English music.  He did
>Elgar's "Enigma" towards the end of his life, and Holst as recorded here
>and from a live NBCSO broadcast in 1943.  He also gave the US Premiere of
>Elgar's Second Symphony when Stokowski was in Cincinnati.  Other than
>that, nothing comes to my mind.

Please see the article by Edward Johnson in the Winter 2000 edition
of Classic Record Collector, the one with Stokowski on the cover, which
discusses Stokowski's British repertoire.  There's quite an impressive list
of his performances of works by British composers.

Darrell Acree
Washington, DC

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