In compelling, suspenseful fashion, “Taking Sides” illuminates brilliantly the dilemma of a great, world-renowned artist flourishing in a totalitarian regime. The artist in question was Wilhelm ...
Some listeners and even some musicians (they’re usually the ones in the back stands) wonder why orchestras need conductors. The players know how the stuff goes anyway, don’t they? All they have to do ...
TAKING SIDES. By Ronald Harwood. With Ed Harris, Daniel Massey, Michael Stuhlbarg, Elizabeth Marvel, Norbert Weisser and Ann Dowd. Set by David Jenkins. Costumes by Theoni V. Aldredge. Directed by ...
Brahms, Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3 and 10 and Haydn Variations, and Beethoven, “Coriolan Overture” and “Leonore No. 2” overture, performed by Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting the ...
Andrew Ford in defence of a difficult, compromised man. Perhaps what bothers us most in the story of Wilhelm Furtwangler is the thought that Nazis might have appreciated great art. We look at those ...
Reporter Dan Charles examines the controversial life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, who conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from the 1920s until the mid 1950s. After World War Two, the Americans put ...
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