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When Otto Klemperer became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... Despite the atmosphere in which he was raised, young Werner showed little aptitude for music.
Werner Klemperer, the character actor whose greatest ... As an adult, he saw parallels between comedy timing and rhythmic patterns in music. “Music influences every move I make, and always ...
Werner Klemperer was a veteran actor who escaped Germany with his family prior to the start of World War II. Classically trained as a violinist and the son of noted conductor Otto Klemperer, he played ...
N E W   Y O R K, Dec. 7 -- Werner Klemperer, a Jewish refugee from NaziGermany ... He also performed in various operas, including TheSound of Music, with the New York City Opera.
Werner Klemperer, actor whose multi-faceted career ... Abduction of from the Seraglio” and as Max in “The Sound of Music.” Born March 22, 1920, in Cologne, Germany, he and his family came ...
Werner Klemperer, born in Cologne in 1920 ... he narrated classical music performances, bring them to the masses. When Klemperer died in 2000, his widow Kim Hamilton admitted that all the clanking ...
Nothing annoys Conductor Otto Klemperer quite so much as applause. He takes his bows almost grudgingly, his craggy face expressionless, his eyes apparently unseeing. To Klemperer, musicmaking is ...
Klemperer, a distant relation of actor Werner Klemperer and conductor Otto ... she is still passionate about bringing music into people's lives. She has captivated critics with her solo concerts.
Dark, fierce-eyed Otto Klemperer has the awe-inspiring, fiery look of an Old Testament prophet. And, like Job, he has been sorely afflicted. Last week, at 61, after years of tragedy, Conductor ...
NEW YORK -- Werner Klemperer, 80, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who went on to play the inept German prison-camp commandant Col. Klink on TV's "Hogan's Heroes," died of cancer Dec. 6 at his ...