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...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...
...packs his 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...
...PARTY (418 pp.)-Rudolph von Abele-Houghton Mifflin...
...brutality at the concentration camp where he is stationed. Steinbaum is on the verge of joining an anti-Nazi conspiracy when he makes the mistake of going to a party held by a high Nazi official in an elegant château. The symbol of Nazi Germany, Author von Abele suggests, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but this grand, lurid party in which decent men lose their bearings and capitulate to monsters...