Posted in Memories, People on May 31st, 2007 5 Comments »
As soon as I watched - in awe - this champion juggler, I thought immediately of the wildly unconventional Swiss psychoanalyst and all-round Renaissance man Fritz Morgenthaler, M.D., who died in 1984. Gay but largely closeted in the years when the international psychoanalytic movement maintained an almost totally homophobic standpoint, he did pioneer work in [...]
Posted in Memories, People on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Alexander Waugh’s new biography of his illustrious family clan, “Fathers and Sons”, with a focus upon its most illustrious member of all, the great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh (Alexander Waugh’s grandfather), has recalled to my mind an avalanche of eternally fresh memories of my first weekend in Europe, a mere 58 years ago. It would [...]
Posted in Events, Life and culture, Music on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
1.) Berlin Philharmonic (BPO) / Rattle - BRAHMS: 2d Piano Concerto (Barenboim); WEILL: “The Seven Deadly Sins”.
2.) Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester (RSO) / Janowski - WEBERN: Passacaglia, op. 1; BERG: Seven Early Songs (Elizabeth Connell); WAGNER: Act 3 of “Siegfried” (Connell et al.).
7.) “musica reanimata” (Berlin’s admirable shoestring operation to redress Nazi suppression of [...]
Posted in People on May 8th, 2007 No Comments »
From the San Francisco Chronicle comes this quotation: “[Cellist Gregor] Pyatigorsky used to say, ‘You know, I get so tired of hearing Slava play those same 39 concertos.’”
Posted in Memories, Music, People on May 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
My first two personal meetings with Rostropovich took place in Moscow (1958) and around that same time here in Berlin, where I attended his local début at a time when virtually nobody here had ever even heard his name. I had originally discovered him purely by accident, during my first visit to Prague, which had [...]
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