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Create Great Conversations

ON A JULY EVENING IN 1937, the renowned conductor Leopold Stokowski was alone having dinner in a Los Angeles restaurant when he saw someone at another table trying to get his attention. “Why don't we sit together?” the other patron called over. That man was Walt Disney, who had just acquired the rights to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a symphonic piece based on a poem by Goethe. Disney immediately asked Stokowski what he thought of the musical score and mentioned that he was thinking of turning it into a short ...

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