Scandal at the Berliner Keggermoniker: “You go for tranquillisers or beer,” says Klaus Wallendorf, “with me it was
beer.” His teacher advised him to drink a beer if he could not reach a note.
“Then you drink two beers and it goes smoothly so you think you should do it
all the time, “ said Mr Wallendorf, speaking in Thomas Grube’s film Tour
of Asia which accompanies the Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Sir
Simon Rattle, on a ground-breaking 2005 tour.