对斯托科夫斯基,有人说他是天才,但相反的意见则认为他不过是一个音乐术士。他接近凶悍的眼光和夸张的手势足以使乐队发狂。他活得很长,差一点就翻过一个世纪。在他长长的音乐生涯中最有成效的工作竟然是将巴赫的宗教音乐改编成了人们更易接受的世俗音乐。作为一名教堂管风琴师,他巧妙地将教堂音乐中动人的一面与管弦乐丰富的表现力融合到了一起;宽阔的场面加上细微的对比迎合了大多数人对声音的需求。另一方面他不像富特文格勒和托斯卡尼尼那样对录音室心存疑虑,从一开始他就与录音工程师们打得火热,几乎在声音复制技术发展的每一个重要阶段都会看到他的影子;最先是他与美国电子管弦乐团在 To Stokowski, some people say that he is a genius, but on the contrary, he is considered a musician. His approaching fierce vision and exaggerated gestures were enough to make the band crazy. He lived a long time, almost a century later. The most productive work in his long musical career turned out to be the adaptation of Bach’s religious music into more acceptable secular music. As a church organist, he skillfully blends the touching side of church music with the rich expressiveness of orchestral music; the wide scene with subtle contrast caters to most people’s voice needs. On the other hand, he was not as suspicious of studios as Furtwag and Tuscanini, and from the very beginning he had been playing hard with recording engineers, almost at every important stage of sound reproduction technology Saw his shadow; first of all he was with the American Electronic Orchestra