Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Herbert Von Karajan conducting (35:50).
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Well, my old friend begley has made a telling point. Clearly Vito only featured this von Karajan creep because he held that vital Nazi party card. I mean, it’s not as if the little jerk could actually conduct or anything. Why, I’ve seen better conductors on the roof of my barn. And we all know that no one ever held a Nazi party membership out of mere self-interest, or desire to keep himself or his family as safe as possible, or just to be allowed to go on working at work as beautiful and important as this, and certainly never out of misguided patriotism. Hell, no. He had to be certified 99.99% pure evil, and be proud of it, or they’d never have taken him.
“Vito”? Wasn’t that Mussolini’s name?
I would not necessarily agree that “no one ever held a Nazi party membership out of mere self-interest, or desire to keep himself or his family as safe as possible”, merely because many people did join communist parties in those other dictatorships for pretty much the reasons presented here.
Incidentally, my (limited) experience with German conductors is that they go much too fast (thinking of Klemperer particularly). I did not get that impression of von Karajan however.
Well, this thread is dead. But nv53 – I love the accelerandi of Furtwanger!!
And, I must say, one of the most transitive experiences for me was in the 1970s – meeting Germans who were Nazis in WWII – but out of patriotism – not ideology
It set my head spinning for many years. These guys were human, not robots.