“Arcady Dubensky (1890-1966) was a Russian composer who left Russia in 1921 and took up a post as violinist in the New York Philharmonic. Stokowski became very interested in Dubensky’s music and gave several of his works their World Premieres. One of these was what Dubensky called “A Melo-Declamation for Narrator and Orchestra on Edgar … Continue reading Leopold Stokowski died on September 13, 1975, aged 95. He was born in London on April 18, 1882. Here he conducts The Raven and Verklärte Nacht. Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto/Steuermann. José Serebrier conducts Stokowski’s orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition. Ives’s Fourth Symphony.