April 18 - Leopold Stokowski (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Leopold Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was an English conductor, long active in America.

[For last year's limerick on Franz von Suppé click here.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hands On

With an air of the grandest of grands,

Stokowski conveyed his demands,

And when there was not light

He ordered a spotlight

To show off his elegant hands,

 

 

 

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