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This week in East Berlin's famed Marienkirche-under the noses of his Red enemies-doughty Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, 77, offered a prayer for Pastor Schmutzler, and told his congregation that, in fact, the church had already defeated the Communists in their campaign to win German youth away from religion: "Our younger generation has a more conscious faith than when we were young. Young people sink themselves in the Bible to strengthen their faith...
...frock coat emerged from behind a yellow curtain. Feet dragging, he made his way to the podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It was the climactic moment of a current London Beethoven cycle, and once he began to conduct, he was hardly recognizable as the same man who had painfully shuffled toward...
Hitler drove him out of Germany because he was a Jew, Otto Klemperer fell over backwards when a railing gave way during a rehearsal, striking his head at the base of the skull. For six years he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but a brain tumor developed and an operation in 1939 left him paralyzed on his right side...
...daughter Lotte, and reads the Bible before going to bed each night. A remote and austere figure, he has achieved a unique position in the music world. His trials parallel those experienced by the composer of the "Eroica." Beethoven proved that not even deafness could keep him from composing. Otto Klemperer has proved that not even paralysis can keep him from the podium...
...swirling, silvery tunes never sounded better. Herbert von Karajan, conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, is pliant and powerful; Singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall and Christa Ludwig are uniformly excellent. They invest their climactic closing trio with even more than its usual aching grandeur, while Otto Edelmann's Baron Ochs combines authority with the required asininity...