Klarinet Archive - Posting 000365.txt from 2000/01

From: Ken Wolman <ken.wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:39:36 -0500

rbushidioglot@-----.net wrote:
>
> Ken brings up a contentious point. I will not buy a DG recording by Von Karajan
> because I will not support the legacy of a man who was a Nazi collaborator. May he
> always be conducting an all Jewish orchestra in the hereafter, an orchestra that
> will not follow his baton and spits in his face at the conclusion of every
> performance. If I need to tell myself a second reason for not buying nor listening
> to any of his orchestral interpretations, it would be because I find him a bore.

I can't confirm this with specific names, but I have heard that several
Jewish musicians--instrumentalists and opera singers--simply refused to
work with VonK even though all his recordings carried lots of prestige.
I THINK he wanted Richard Tucker for something but Tucker flatly refused
to work with him.

Reports I read on Opera-L suggest that Karl Boehm made Von Karajan look
like a member of the UJA by comparison. He's supposed to have made a
dinner comment (while under the affluence of incohol, no doubt) to Terry
McEwen, the late director of the SF Opera, that (I paraphrase) "We
didn't get all them, more's the pity," referring to the Jews. McEwen
told him he would never conduct at the San Francisco opera again, as
great as he was.

Ken
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