Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing to fight for Klemperer too. Budapest's orchestras were far inferior to those of Vienna or Paris, and only a top conductor would bring them up again. If Budapest could only bear with Otto Klemperer, there was a good chance that it might get first-class music at last-the kind of music Berlin had heard, 15 years...
From Rome to Paris, music-lovers had cheered him when he appeared as guest conductor; but no city seemed to want him around for long. He was half paralyzed and shamble-gaited-the result of a brain tumor that struck him down in Los Angeles nine years ago. At times he conducted as if inspired, and at times he floundered hopelessly. His sudden rages and prolonged depressions seemed sometimes to border on madness. Even his friends had begun to doubt whether stormy Otto Klemperer, the once brilliant conductor of pre-Hitler Berlin, would ever have an orchestra...
Then, last year, Otto Klemperer went to Budapest. He appeared with the State Opera and with the Philharmonic, and the music he made was some of the best Budapest had heard in years. This year Opera Director Aladar Toth decided to risk hiring him for the full 1948 season of 40 operas and symphony concerts. When the season opened, Otto Klemperer had his first steady job since 1941. But this week Budapest was wondering how long he would be able to hold...
...podium, he took over the Cincinnati Symphony from famed Eugene Ysaÿe, gave it nine of the best years of its life. In Pittsburgh, which he quit last spring after a fight over managerial economies, he was known as a martinet who knew how to command good music. But all these years Fritz Reiner has been hankering for his old love. "A conductor must conduct opera," he says. "His life is not complete unless he does...
...retirement so attractive either? Bauer tells of phoning a music store where he had once been well known. Who was calling? the clerk asked. "Mr. Harold Bauer." "How is it spelled?" said the clerk...