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

  • From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:59:53 -0500

Mom was scared to death of him.  She was 13.

P.J. Nebergall

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:57:00 -0400 Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Sir Thomas Beecham once called me an idiot, I think not deservedly.  
> Other than that, he was a pretty good conductor.
> 
> Allen Zak
> 
> On Sep 6, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Peter J Nebergall 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/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen Zak
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:47 PM
> >> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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