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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The first four weeks of the ninety-third season of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society concerts will be conducted by Otto Klemperer, who is scheduled to arrive September 28 on the liner Aquitania. The ...

What do you get the person who has everything? The answer to that seasonally persistent question, at least for those who love classical music, is, well . . . everything. And that’s easy enough, ...

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 ...

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 was a veteran actor who escaped Germany with his family prior to the start of World War II. Classically trained as a violinist and the son of noted conductor Otto Klemperer, he played ...