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...Koussevitzky, who is always enthusiastic about new things in rehearsals, glowed that it was classic in form and sometimes "very near to Haydn." The Boston Symphony conductor turned often to his protege, Leonard Bernstein, to remark "Isn't it beautiful?" Bernstein thought it a bore...
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 Klemperer was making a European comeback...
Europeans remembered him as the great pre-Hitler conductor of the Berlin State Opera. Some Americans remembered his six-year success with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but more remembered sensational newspaper headlines about...
...base of the skull. A brain tumor operation in 1939 left him partially paralyzed. Then in 1941 he registered at a Rye, N.Y. sanatorium for a rest. The second day he walked out, and the sanatorium director notified the police, who issued a widely publicized nine-state alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane...
Holiday for Music (Wed. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Cole Porter music plus Conductor-Composer David Rose's new Dance of the Ice Cubes...