As a venue, the Hollywood Bowl can boast that it has hosted an astounding range of luminaries throughout its history. In tandem with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's perennial summer residency there, conductors ranging from Otto Klemperer to Leopold Stokowski (who actually founded the short-lived Hollywood Bowl Symphony in 1943) to Herbert von Karajan to Leonard Bernstein have stood upon its podium; Arturo Toscanini, it is said, is the only major conductor of his time not to have led a concert on its stage. Performers from outside the realm of classical music — including Al Jolson, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, and Mikhail Baryshnikov — have also lent a special cachet to the legendary Bowl. Australian/American composer Percy Grainger was married on its stage in 1928.
