Otto Klemperer's Long Journey through His Times

Yes. Yes. And yes again.

Comments

[Potter]

Cool find!

[Boris Brott]

I have looked at this film on Otto Klemperer with fascination and not a small amount of nostalgia. I was at those rehearsals in 1971 in London as a young conductor having my own successes as Music Director of the Northern Sinfonia. I knew the Klemperer's well from my early years in Montreal, where my father was concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony and the Klemperers made Montreal their home while awaiting the horrible McCarthy trials. I am now enjoying my own successes in Italy as Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Petruzzelli, in Bari and frequent guest conductor in Verona and Trieste.