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Since a large part of his repertory is devoted to music long since committed to his, and most listeners', memory, Von Karajan has also found leisure to become an avid sportsman, often slips off for a week of skiing in the Alps or an afternoon's spin in a rented light plane or a glider. In all these pastimes, as in music, he luxuriates in what he calls "harmony of movement"-the remarkable performance that is given without apparent effort. He has also had time to indulge a broad streak of vanity that extends from his brown suede...
...dozen years the musical battle raged, from high chambers of the Nazi Party to high balconies of Austrian concert halls. Aging Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, backed by Goebbels, clearly could not stomach the competition given him by young Conductor Herbert von Karajan, a Goring protege, and undercut him at every opportunity. Von Karajan (pronounced approximately carryon) coldly played a waiting game. His attitude: "I have time." He was right. When Furtwängler died in 1954, Von Karajan assumed all the old man's prestige and more. Today, Austrian-born Herbert von Karajan is lord of a unique musical empire...
Never a Chair. Such a pace may seem too much for one man, but wiry Conductor von Karajan thrives on it. His secret: a field marshal's talent for delegating authority. He maintains secretarial teams or artistic aides in Berlin, Vienna and Milan, employs a roving personal secretary named André Mattoni, who functions as his chief of staff. His wife Anita, herself an effective staff member, lives at their Austrian villa not far from Innsbruck...
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Irmgard Seefried, Rita Streich, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan; Angel, 3 LPs). One of Strauss's important operas, handicapped by a confused libretto, but abetted by some soaringly lyrical music. Even when the score is less than inspired, the cast's three unbeatable leading sopranos melt the listener...
...roster of artists is impressive. In many cases the Angel touch has helped to make stars out of performers once little more than names in the U.S., notably Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Conductor Herbert von Karajan with London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Russian Pianist Emil Gilels. Some record shoppers will buy the bright, cellophane-wrapped Angel albums for the label alone. Although Angel's sales are still well behind Victor and Columbia, the company now ranks fourth in classical LP sales (just behind London), and rival record executives have come to regard the muscle-flexing cherub nervously...