A close friend of Leopold Stokowski, the famous orchestra conduutor, has written that Stokowski often said to him, “Don’t ask me about what was, but what is to come.” This was typical of Stokowski’s attitude and approach to life. “Shortly before he died,” the friend wrote, “he had signed a contract with Columbia Records to make four records a year until 1982 – – when he would have been exactly 100.”
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