Last week in Manhattan, at considerable personal expense, after great personal effort, a musician conducted an orchestra to prove to the world that he is not crazy. There have been worse reasons for a ...
Nothing annoys Conductor Otto Klemperer quite so much as applause. He takes his bows almost grudgingly, his craggy face expressionless, his eyes apparently unseeing. To Klemperer, musicmaking is ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Recording collections reveal the talents of an essential 20th-century musician who lived through mental illness, Nazism and other tribulations. By ...