Donald Satz wrote:

>3.  The Conducting All-Wrong Award - The $300 gift certificate to the hair
>salon of his choice goes to Stowkowski for his recordings of Bach.  When
>asked if he played Bach as if he was Tchaikovsky, Stokie claimed to have a
>photograph of the two composers engaging in an intimate musical discussion.
>"They were soul mates, and I just wanted to highlight the connection."

I appreciate Don's wit, but I think he got it wrong here.  Stokie never
claimed that any of his Bach was authentic and his arrangements were
just that, arrangements.  I will admit that his Brandenburg 5 with Anshel
Brusilow et al is a little quirkyinplaces, but I think that it lives up to
the spirit of the music as well as any Karajan, Furtwaengler or Klemperer
recording of Baroque music ever did.

Kevin Sutton