1.11 American Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and London.
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He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and his appearance in the Disney film Fantasia with that orchestra. Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was an English conductor of mixed Polish and Irish descent.