Page "Carlos Kleiber" Paragraph 15

According to Dr Charles Barber, biographer, friend, and pen-pal of Kleiber, another factor contributed to his legendary and unusual career.

" Uniquely, Carlos Kleiber combined the rigors of German analysis, form, and discipline with the expressive vitality of Latin dance, pulse, and joy.

For nearly twenty years at the formative outset, a conductor baptized Karl gradually became Carlos.

He never turned his back on that fascinating cultural biochemistry.

It would shape everything he did.