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BACKGROUND MUSIC.(Taking Sides)(Movie Review)
Did anybody look like Wilhelm Furtwangler, apart from Wilhelm Furtwangler? Many photographs exist of the conductor on his podium, and they offer more than an inkling of the attention that he compelled. What a combination: the knobbly leanness of a high jumper, the distracted glare of a chess freak, and the long-necked sorrow of a vulture that doesn't know where its next dead zebra is coming from. He even had little wings of hair tufting out from the sides of his head, as if to stress the already unmistakable fact that his mind was on higher things.
The hair is the only physical detail that survives in Stellan Skarsgard's performance in "Taking Sides," a dramatized ...
- Wilhelm Furtwangler: A Discography.
- Magazine article from: Notes Galo, Gary A. September 1, 1998 700+ words
...after his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler remains one of the most significant...by Henning Smidth Olsen (Wilhelm Furtwangler: A Discography, 2d ed...Schipper and the North American Wilhelm Furtwangler Society, 1973]). There...
- Wilhelm Furtwangler: Concert Listing, 1906-1954.
- Magazine article from: Notes Galo, Gary A. September 1, 1998 700+ words
...after his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler remains one of the most significant...by Henning Smidth Olsen (Wilhelm Furtwangler: A Discography, 2d ed...Schipper and the North American Wilhelm Furtwangler Society, 1973]). There...
- Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor; Cello Concerto in A Minor. (Walter...
- Magazine article from: National Review De Toledano, Ralph May 28, 1990 700+ words
...Grammophon 427 799-2), digitalized from mono to CD. Furtwangler, one of the greatest conductors of our time, opposed Hitler...the kind of music he played best. And it shows us how fine Furtwangler could be-warm, moving, precise, and getting the very...
- Wilhelm Furtwangler.
- Magazine article from: Notes DeVoto, Mark June 1, 1994 700+ words
We know from his writings how large a role music played in the life and mind of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), and we know of his infatuation with Richard Wagner's music, and with Wagner personally, from the beginning of his career. He was an active and dedicated composer from his teens to his
- The Furtwangler Record.
- Magazine article from: Notes Galo, Gary A. December 1, 1995 700+ words
...on the recorded legacy of Wilhelm Furtwangler, arguably one of the two...1970 and revised in 1973 (Wilhelm Furtwangler: A Discography, 2d ed...Schipper and the North American Wilhelm Furtwangler Society, 1973]). Nearly...
- The Furtwangler Sound, 5th ed.
- Magazine article from: Notes Galo, Gary A. September 1, 1998 700+ words
...after his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler remains one of the most significant...by Henning Smidth Olsen (Wilhelm Furtwangler: A Discography, 2d ed...Schipper and the North American Wilhelm Furtwangler Society, 1973]). There...
- Furtwangler on trial
- Magazine article from: Opera News Stearns, David Patrick November 1, 1996 700+ words
Wilhelm Furtwangler had an uneasy relationship with America...the Metropolitan Opera. But because Furtwangler had been Hitler's favorite conductor...Finally, some fifty years later, Furtwangler is arriving in New York -- on Broadway...
- Entre Parentesis/ El panuelo de Furtwangler.(Cultura)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) October 8, 2002 700+ words
...Tal habra sido el caso de Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886-1954), director...constantemente explica el intimidado Furtwangler en la pelcula: que el arte...somos, un poco, el sudoroso Wilhelm Furtwangler ante ese mini-Nuremberg...
