Word: bohm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hall, the festivities merged as New York began its fall season by vacating the stage to the Viennese. In the Green Room at intermis sion, New York's Leonard Bernstein (who guest-conducted Beethoven's Leonora Overture No. 3 at the concert) embraced Vienna's Karl Bohm and wondered aloud whether the two orches tras might not be brother or sister...
...they are, the family resemblance is faint. Although the Vienna Philharmonic responded to Bernstein's exuberant beat with a reasonable facsimile of the razor-sharp New York sound, it played for Bohm with the familiar tone that has made it one of the outstanding groups in orchestral history...
...ISOLDE (5 LPs; Deutsche Grammophon). Just as the lovers sing in darkest Liebesnacht of the light that shines within them, this recording illuminates Wagner's murky masterpiece. Taped live at Bayreuth last summer, it is by far the best interpretation yet. Most of the credit goes to Karl Bohm, who brings out all the opera's passion and eroticism without tripping over its technical difficulties. The tempos are strong, the melodic and thematic lines always clear-all of which supports the singers and frees them to pour their strength into vocal characterization. In the seven years since...
What saved the opera from its pretentious libretto was the soaring music of Strauss, conducted with thunderous brilliance by the late composer's gifted friend, Karl Bohm. By turns raging and receding, mischievous and mystical, the orchestration powerfully underscored the mysterious gulfs between the two worlds and buttressed each role with bold, contrasting shades of vocal writing. Big, robust, infinitely rich, Die Frau was symphonic opera music-and Metropolitan Opera-at its best...
...another of his political torpedoes. Writing in the fortnightly church magazine Stimme (Voice), Niemöller charged that West Germany's militaristic policies are a danger to peace, and have earned his country a "general unpopularity" matching South Africa's. He cited Transport Minister Hans-Christoph See-bohm and former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss as "names behind which living humanity suspects inhumanity personified." West German democracy, he said, "only shares the name with what one used to understand by it," and the leading political parties are bent on creating a dictatorship that would make Hitler seem like...