Editing Leopold Stokowski (section)

===International career===
However, when in 1950 [[Dimitri Mitropoulos]] was appointed Chief Conductor of the NYPO, Stokowski began a new international career which commenced in 1951 with a nationwide tour of England: during the Festival of Britain celebrations he conducted the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] at the invitation of Sir [[Thomas Beecham]]. It was during this first visit that he made his debut recording with a British orchestra, the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]], of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s ''[[Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)|Scheherazade]]''. During that same summer he also toured and conducted in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, and Portugal, establishing a pattern of guest-conducting abroad during the summer months while spending the winter seasons conducting in the United States. This scheme was to hold good for the next 20 years during which Stokowski conducted many of the world's greatest orchestras, simultaneously making recordings with them for various labels. Thus he conducted and recorded with the main London orchestras as well as the [[Berlin Philharmonic]], the [[Orchestre de la Suisse Romande]], the [[Orchestre National de France|French National Radio Orchestra]], the [[Czech Philharmonic]], the [[Radio Filharmonisch Orkest|Hilversum (Netherlands) Radio Philharmonic]], and others.{{Citation needed|date=July 2014}}