I *hate* jazz but Lenny is on TCM educating me *why*!1
Shucks, I missed the previous hour of his classic classic deconstruction of the Beet's Symphony #5, plus, shucks, the episode of "What puts the Grand in Grand opera" doesn't air until 3:30 A.M. ET, so YouTube here I come some day!1
Speaking of jazz (anyone?), in h.s. band, we had a kool kid band director who would start the tune-up with, "Well, that's close enough for JAZZ." Do I need to add that we *never* played jazz?!1 It was a Band Joke.
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Will insert a YouTube of KLEIBER (very weird) here when I look it up (the theme is "Conducting"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kleiber
Carlos Kleiber (3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004) was a German-born Austrian conductor who is widely regarded as being among the greatest conductors of the 20th century. ... ....
During his freelance career, Kleiber restricted his conducting appearances to a select number of occasions. He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck, a work whose premiere his father had conducted in 1925. ....
His American debut came in 1978 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,[6] where he again conducted in 1983, his only US orchestra appearances.[7][8] His New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting Giacomo Puccini's La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni.[9] In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the opportunity to succeed him as music director. ... ....
Kleiber kept out of the public eye, and apparently gave an interview only once in his lifetime,[13][14][15] contrary to reports that he never gave one at all.[8][16][17] After he resigned from the Bavarian State Opera, his appearances became less frequent and he made only a few recordings. Most of these are highly regarded; his versions of Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 4, 6 and 7 with the Bavarian State Orchestra are particularly distinguished. ....
Kleiber retired from concert life in the early 1990s, occasionally reappearing for private or benefit concerts. For one such event in Ingolstadt, part of his payment consisted of a new Audi made to his specifications. His performances were painstakingly rehearsed, but often seemed spontaneous and inspired. In the opinion of many of his colleagues and audiences, he was an eccentric genius whom some placed among the greatest conductors of all time despite the paucity of his appearances. ....
Kleiber's unique conducting style is preserved on video in a number of performances: ... ....
On 26 September 2009, BBC Radio 3 transmitted a documentary, Who Was Carlos Kleiber?. Produced by Paul Frankl and presented by Ivan Hewett with research by Ruth Thomson, this feature was based on interviews with four who knew Kleiber well: tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo, music administrator and intendant Sir Peter Jonas, music journalist and critic Christine Lemke-Matvey and conductor–pianist Charles Barber. ....
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