For this we would have needed to take a train to Berlin and speed ahead to the late Weimar period with Bauhaus artists and the Russian avant-garde, as well as Giorgio de Chirico all working for the vibrant and controversial Krolloper under the direction of
Otto Klemperer. It was the dawning of the dark era of Nazi censorship and doom.
Wasn't it the conductor
Otto Klemperer who said that listening to a recording was like going to bed with a photograph of Marilyn Monroe?
He went with conductor
Otto Klemperer to Sam Goody's record shop in NYC.
The rise of the modern music director model, whereby an orchestra's primary conductor only spends twelve-to-fifteen weeks a year in residence, soon saw Judson managing the careers of most major conductors, including Stokowski, Fritz Reiner, Eugene Or-mandy,
Otto Klemperer, Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Furtwangler, and Dimitri Mitro-poulos.
One needs to begin at the beginning: with
Otto Klemperer and Bruno Walter, the two great conductors who knew Mahler and had heard him conduct his own music, both in rehearsal and in performance.
He listened to recordings, read biographies and other books on conductors, and considered reviews of performances for his discussion, which begins with Wagner himself, then chronologically treats his pupils Hermann Levi, Felix Mottl, and Karl Muck, and Viennese, American, German, and Russian conductors Arthur Nikisch, Albert Coates, Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner, Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Artur Bodanzky, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Fritz Busch, Erich Kleiber, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss, Karl Bohm, Richard Strauss,
Otto Klemperer, and Fritz Reiner.
On paper this looks ridiculous: one of history's most thoughtful pianists, Claudio Arrau, collaborating with one of history's craggiest conductors,
Otto Klemperer, in the showpiece which Chopin's E minor Piano Concerto is purported to be.
These include Cecil Beaton (who indicates that he still considered Waugh an enemy), Bertrand Russell, Carl Jung, Augustus John, Henry Moore, Compton Mackenzie,
Otto Klemperer, and John Osborne.
She once said he was a Christian Jew who was married to a Christian pagan who was able to "get off scot-free."
Otto Klemperer, another Christian convert who championed Mahler's music, said that he became close to Catholicism but contradicted himself by saving also that Mahler was typically irreligious.
9 where
Otto Klemperer plays piano "coaching" the singers and the choir), but also provides scores and orchestral sets for the three WDR Orchestras and the WDR choir, producing and preserving also printed music.
AoIf something doesnAAEt sound right,Ao he told
Otto Klemperer, Aochange it.Ao As a result, no two Mahler performances on record sound the same.