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Friday, February 27, 2009

KARAJAN THE WAR YEARS AND THE NSDP

FRANKESTEIN OR GENIUS THE MIDAS TOUCH HIS FALCON JET BY DASSAU. Frankestein or genius he lived his life and every minute for him was a chance for something to learn.The famous Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa Sintow recalls when she heard an ear bursting noise over the sky in Salzburg.She came out of the building and asked what it was. KARAJAN WAS TRYING OUT THE CONCORDE. He made the desicion for the building of the new Salzburg theatre while he was pilotting his falcon jet from AUSTRIA TO SWEDEN. He was using the fast Porche cars and he was saying this prevented him from putting rust on his brains. It seems that the fact that KARAJAN HAD JOINED THE NSDP cannot be denied..These were hard times,bad times for the humanity,and more so for the musicians whose performances were and still are used as propaganda by various regimes. Richard Osborne who published the famous DISCUSSIONS with Karajan book with interviews taken in person with the maestro covers this side of Karajan`s life.However after examining the facts by noumerous historical sources i have to say that his involvement with the NSDP was for the benefit of his cariere.I do not know if the maestro had changed his mind about the paricipation to the party,all the times he was asked he refused to reply. This page examines his portrait as an international personality whose involvement with music gave the world masterpieces of performance. Karajan was more than a maestro,he was a teacher as the way he was reading the score was exausting in detail,underlying the colours and the harmonies in a unique way.

2 comments:

Marwood said...

O Karajan ήταν για μένα όπως σου έχω ξαναγράψει μυθική μορφή από την παιδική μου ηλικία.
Μεγαλοφυία χωρίς αμφιβολία, και γοητευτικότατη προσωπικότητα, για τα δικά μου γούστα βέβαια. Δηλαδή κορυφαίος μαέστρος, αυταρχικός με άποψη, λάτρης των Ferrari και της αεροπλοϊας, καθώς και του ποδόγυρου ως το βαθύ γήρας, και σαν κερασάκι μέλος του NSDAP γεγονός για το οποίο ουδέποτε απολογήθηκε. Με δυο λόγια μάγκας...

MUSIC THROUGH THE YEARS said...

SYNFONO apolyta

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