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...Manhattan for the first of four concerts, during a month's North American tour, the Philharmonia looked much like any other orchestra. When Salzburg-born Conductor Herbert von Karajan took it through the Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the Queen, it sounded much like any other, too. But in a Mozart Divertimento, it became something special...
...flexibility usually found in the best string quartets. Behind the strings a pair of French horns entered every now and then with the utmost discretion, like a painter thickening his line without slowing his brush. Mozart came out very warmly indeed. When the slow movement was done, Conductor von Karajan stood momentarily with his arms dangling before his bent figure, as if to say, "How could such music possibly come...
Growing Up. The reason probably lay with Conductor von Karajan, 47, who was suffering from an old back ailment, and who is perhaps not his best self in French music anyhow. For the Philharmonia is a chameleon-like instrument that almost too easily adapts to its conductor. It was formed of Britain's choice musicians primarily as a recording orchestra, which, unlike Toscanini's NBC Symphony, never had a permanent conductor. Its founder: Walter Legge, London impresario and record executive (Electrical & Musical Industries Ltd., which successfully launched Angel Records in the U.S.). In order to keep the orchestra...
...excitement but was lovingly correct and sometimes glowed with insight. Most appealing moment: the slow movement of the Beethoven, in which the strings sang their melodies against trickling woodwinds. When it was over, the crowd shouted its approval, and the orchestra gave an encore: the Overture to Tannhduser. Von Karajan accepted a basket of chrysanthemums, plucked one and presented it to his concertmaster...
Salzburg-born Herbert von Karajan, 46, began his career as a pianist, became conductor of a small opera house (at Ulm) when he was 21. Today he is regarded as one of the world's finest conductors, but personally one of the most difficult. In 1939 he began a running musical feud with Furtwangler. In 1948, when both men were conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Von Karajan left when he lost a battle over rehearsal rights. Later, he also abandoned Salzburg to his older rival, took refuge in Bayreuth, which he left in turn after he insisted on changing some...