[2] Ole Windingstad's most important musical work was a symphony called The Tides, which was composed in 1936 and first performed in Albany in 1938.
He was conducting a concert with the Dutchess County Symphony in Poughkeepsie, New York[3] when he suffered a heart attack, and later died in Kingston, on June 3, 1959, at age 73.
After a notable performance The New York Times reported on March 26, 1916:[5] Under the auspices of the American-Scandinavian Society, a concert of music of the northern countries was given at Carnegie Hall last night.
Those who took part included Marie Sundelius, soprano; Albert Lindqvist, bass; Herman Sandby, cellist; the Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra with Ole Windingstad as conductor, and a male chorus of 150 voices.
During Ole Windingstad's tenure the orchestra presented Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf which was narrated by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.