Word: karajans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Austrian Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 55, has long been an a.m. book worm, and now he has caught an early bird. While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
...Wolfgang decided to take part time off from business to form his own or gan group, determined to bring the clean, cold, clear sound of the 18th century baroque organ to 20th century ears. Von Karajan's basic ensemble consists of three organs, fitted out with 6-ft.-high wood and metal pipes, and Wolfgang plays one of them himself. When necessary, Wolfgang and his associates are joined by flutists, oboists, violinists and viola players who trail behind the furniture van in a chauffeur-driven station wagon. Wandering from town to town, playing for anybody, the group has worked...
...three oak organs on the back of a red and blue furniture van and takes his music on the road, like a traveling medicine show. Whichever, the driver of the truck and the owner of the villa bears one of the most celebrated names in European music: Von Karajan-Wolfgang von Karajan...
Clean & Clear. Both Von Karajan brothers were regarded as prodigies in their youth and studied at Salzburg's famed Mozarteum. But after graduation, Herbert took up conducting; Wolfgang studied electronics, went on to become both inventor and manufacturer of electromedical instruments. So successful was Wolfgang that today, despite Herbert's astronomical concert and recording fees, Wolfgang is the more prosperous...
Instead of booing, a packed house in Milan last week greeted Von Karajan with eloquent silence as he threaded his way through the orchestra. After the Che gelida manina aria, a few hisses mingled with the applause. Von Karajan's slightly Wagnerian notion of Puccini had the audience stunned at first, and La Scala's new second-act setting looked more like the Place de la Concorde than Boheme's little Left Bank square. Still, it was a gripping performance of a great opera, and Von Karajan was honored with 18 curtain calls. "Viva, Karajan!" and "Bravo...