Stokowski and the Organ
Rollin SMITH

A concert organist and frequent writer about organs, Smith documents the 15 years Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) spent as a church organist before he began his long and distinguished career as an orchestra conductor, focusing on his three years as director of music at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. He looks at his early training, his career as a church musician, the circumstances of his coming from London to the US and St. Bartholomew's, the buildings and instruments he was associated with, testimony of his choir members, and the impact of the experience on the rest of his career.