Stokowski
Americannoun
noun
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Dean, Park, Safavi-Naeini, and Stokowski are inventors on a patent application that covers methods for achieving quantum advantage in power-constrained photonic sensors.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
Nancy Shear wasn’t yet out of her teens when she was hired as musical assistant to the eminent and enigmatic symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski, who became her mentor and a father figure of sorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
He’s drawn to the slithering sound of Frederick Delius, and to oddities like the “garish but amazing” Stokowski orchestration of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C sharp minor.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
She found an influential mentor in conductor Leopold Stokowski, who selected her for the American Symphony Orchestra, which he formed in 1962.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
Thereafter Mr. Stokowski, who had tasted blood, or rather, printer's ink, came out on the average of once a month with a new notion to astound the Quakers.
From The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Brower, Harriette
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