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 ...

Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of the conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, one of ...

“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 ...

Otto Klemperer will make his final appearance with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra this afternoon at Carnegie Hall in a program comprising the Weber “Freischuetz” Overture, the Janacek Sinfonietta ...

WERNER Klemperer, the classically trained Jewish actor who played the bumbling Nazi Colonel Klink on “Hogan’s Heroes,” died Wednesday in his apartment on the Upper West Side. He was 80. The son of ...