[rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker

  • From: Jeffery Smith <jls@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:01:36 -0500

If you haven't read the "The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power", please do so. It is a bit of a gossipy hoot.


At 08:50 AM 9/6/2006, you wrote:

Because of my mother (concert pianist) I met a lot of conductors.  ALL
(except Thomas Schippers) were big egos.  I was a brat undefoot -- but
Karajan wasn't nasty to me.
Mom was discovered by Beecham -- now THAT was an ego!

PJ Nebergall

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:57:22 -0500 "Jeffery Smith" <jls@xxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> I think that Von Karajan probably had the biggest ego of just about
> anyone
> in the 20th century. I wouldn't expect him to have repented. He felt
> himself
> incapable of error.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
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>
>
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
> > Parker's exact wording is "The firm Franke & Heidecke were ardent
> and
> > proud
> > supporters of Hitler's National Socialist Party and I would
> quickly
> > hasten
> > to add that many other German industrialists also supported
> Hitler,
> > and with
> > large sums of money."
> >
> > One fellow from the LUG asked me how I could possible listen to
> music
> > conducted by Herbert Von Karajan as he was not opposed to Hitler.
> I
> > suppose that it is the same reason why I drive Japanese cars. I'm
> not
> > buying them
> > for Japan's sake. I'm buying them for my sake.
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> > http://www.400tx.com
> > http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
> Von Karajan, who joined in 1935, was a member of the Nazi Party.
> Afterward, he was unrepentant.  I never bought any of his recordings
>
> because I don't support Nazis, no matter what they are selling.
>
> Allen Zak
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