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Post by ~Linda~ on Mar 4, 2008 11:16:23 GMT 1
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Rosy
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Post by Rosy on Mar 4, 2008 15:45:41 GMT 1
Thank you very much, Linda!  I've immediately request , through the Feltrinelli library. *******************************************************************************Thank you for the beautiful photo! Rosy |
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Post by Rosy on Mar 7, 2008 19:01:42 GMT 1
The book mentioned by Linda, is just arrived. I'd like to write the presentation, because I feel very explanatory
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Alessandro Zignani,
Herbert von Karajan,
Il musico perpetuo
with recommended discography,
pp. 182 Zecchini Editore
" A man in the fight against loneliness of perfection, the inevitable decline in the years, the death of an entire musical tradition. Karajan believed that the will might reverse th course of the things. His whole life was spending in an effort to overcame the threshold of death: securing immortality as an artist. His was a reincarnation of Faust: Faust seduced by " mefistofelici " sound engineers. To admirers, he was, for long time, the misic.Man-Karajan, in his underwear, was a mystical love of nature. The dissociation, in him, among visionary of the future and last depositary of the " romanticismo mitteleuropeo ", it wasn't the last because of his isolatin among a crowd, yet loved him for that too. An hundred years after the birth, his poetic music appears, even in he invasive media, the legacy of an era away from us. Less than twenty years after the death are serious enough to invalidade his gigantic Utopia: making perpetual the beauty.
But the distance is also a mirror in which his figure could finally seems real and human, in all his greatness. "
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My note:
I like this brief article; it reflects the essence of Karajan. His Great Utopia was such, but still coninues to exist, because he believed in it.
Do you have seen his eyes towards the end of his life? They emanated flashes so unlikely because expressing his Great Utopia.
Rosy
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Post by Rosy on Jun 14, 2008 19:24:57 GMT 1
The book mentioned by Linda, is just arrived. *******************************************************************************Alessandro Zignani,Herbert von Karajan,Il musico perpetuowith recommended discography, pp. 182 Zecchini Editore I'm reading the book by Alessandro Zignani, "Herbert von Karajan, Il Musico perpetuo". These are my first observations. After reading the few books written or translated into italian language, I always felt unhappy and sad; the Maestro was a distant figure, I could not approach to his "forma mentis", even a little, and I didn't find what I wanted to know about his interpretations. Often, the arguments from which I was attracted, were exposed so superficial, or on the contrary so incomprehensible that I was suspecting lack of knowledge of the Maestro. Then I noted a disturbing tendency to repeat the same things. I felt that were many things to discover! My desire to know the Maestro was great and for that reason, it was my great disappointment when I didn't have explanatory examples or answers to what to believe! I had to overcame all that, over the years, superficial people had built around his person, for better or for worse. I wanted strongly "to meet" Karajan, I wanted someone to interest to go further to reveal the extraordinary man. Alessandro Zignani, which goes all my gratitude, wrote the book that I wanted to read for years. It's a book written in a manner understandable, it's deep, ironic and cultured. The author does't play with the chamaleon figure of Karajan, but he really explains what can be explained! Often there are some amusing phrases, as if to give breath, as used the Authors of ancient greek literature. I found what I knew instinctively. A. Zignani don't try to give solutions, but adopys the system preferred by Karajan: he leads you up a certain point, then leaves you alone to find conclusions or not find them... ************************************************************************...............continue ................Rosy |
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