Word: karlsbad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After college graduation in 1912, I traveled to Karlsbad In Austria to visit him. We lunched together in a small restaurant. I noted a fly walking on the tablecloth and attempted to swat it. He turned to me and said quietly, "Let the fly enjoy its promenade on the high plateau." How typical of his considerate attitude toward all things great and small...
...father's music and quite clearly was burdened by the comparison. Finally he had to get away from it all and, still in his 30s, exiled himself to a life of teaching and conducting in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lvov. He died at 53 in Karlsbad, where he had gone to take the cure. In death as in life, he was proof of the words that would later be uttered by Richard Wagner's sole male heir, Siegfried: "You don't know how difficult it is being the son of a giant...