Last week in Manhattan, at considerable personal expense, after great personal effort, a musician conducted an orchestra to prove to the world that he is not crazy. There have been worse reasons for a ...

Great! One word, perhaps, suffices to estimate the new conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Superenthusiastic, the audience gave its verdict last night, and it was preponderantly in favor of Otto ...

“Gustav Mahler recommends Herr Klemperer as an outstanding musician, who despite his youth is already very experienced and is predestined for a conductor’s career. He vouches for the successful ...

Music is a thing apart politics, Otto Klemperer, noted conductor who was forced to leave Germany when the Nazis assumed control, declared Friday when he arrived on the liner Aquitania to conduct the ...

Dark, fierce-eyed Otto Klemperer has the awe-inspiring, fiery look of an Old Testament prophet. And, like Job, he has been sorely afflicted. Last week, at 61, after years of tragedy, Conductor ...

It was reported today that the Reich Ministry of Finance has issued a warrant for the “temporary” arrest of Otto Klemperer, Jewish former musical director-general of the State Opera who is now ...

It is never fair, we all know, to prejudge anyone, not even a new conductor. But as he began his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall Thursday night, Stephane Deneve made it ...

What do you get when you connect the 1970s television shows “Beat the Clock” and “Hogan’s Heroes” with a fascinated 4-year-old? A Lake County symphony conductor, of course. “My first thoughts of ...

Conductor, pianist and peace advocate Daniel Barenboim first recorded all five of Beethoven's piano concertos in 1967. Barenboim, a brash and fantastically smart 24-year-old, was paired with an elder ...