The Israel Philharmonic faced protesters in S.F. this week. Its origins lie with Jewish musicians forced out of Germany in ...
This isn’t the almost geometric precision heard in performances by the Berlin Philharmonic or the Royal ... stormy overflowing of the Scherzo. The “New World” Symphony is a chestnut, but ...
They respected each other, but their approach to music was different. Karajan, the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years, was, as the New York Times put it in his obituary, a ...