* Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects, Joseph Farrell and Paul Klemperer.

He was friends of, and played with, the most distinguished conductors of the day, including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, George Szell, Willem Mengelberg, and Sir Adrian Boult.

The son of renowned composer-conductor Otto Klemperer, he was an accomplished violinist and later found fame as a narrator with many renowned orchestras.

In 1968, during the run of Hogan's Heroes, Crane and series costars Werner Klemperer, Leon Askin, and John Banner appeared, with Elke Sommer, in a feature film called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz.

After Krips's resignation the orchestra had worked with a few leading conductors, including Klemperer, Stokowski, Jascha Horenstein and Pierre Monteux, but also with many less eminent ones.

Then, after completing the 1939 summer season at the Hollywood Bowl, Klemperer was visiting Boston and was incorrectly diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the subsequent brain surgery left him partially paralyzed.

At a recording session with Klemperer, a meeting was convened where those present unanimously agreed that they would not allow the orchestra to be disbanded.

Then, after completing the 1939 Los Angeles Philharmonic summer season at the Hollywood Bowl, Klemperer was visiting Boston and was diagnosed with a brain tumor ; the subsequent brain surgery to remove " a tumour the size of a small orange " left him partially paralyzed.

His career was turned around in 1954 by the London-based producer Walter Legge, who recorded Klemperer in Beethoven, Brahms and much else with his hand-picked orchestra, the Philharmonia, for the EMI label.

Many listeners associate Klemperer with slow tempos, but recorded evidence now available on compact disc shows that in earlier years his tempi could be quite a bit faster ; the late recordings give a misleading impression.

The earliest Klemperer performance on tape was recorded in concert in Köln in 1954 ( when he was 69 years old ); the last was in London with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in 1970 ( when he was 85 ).

The passing years show a clear trend with respect to tempo: as Klemperer aged, he took slower tempi.

A list of historical recordings of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Klemperer conducting ( including parts of the George Gershwin Memorial Concert at the Hollywood Bowl ) can be found here: Otto Klemperer conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Among guest conductors with the SFSO during Monteux's years were John Barbirolli, Beecham, Otto Klemperer, Stokowski and Stravinsky.

On fidelity to composers ' scores, Monteux's biographer John Canarina ranks him with Klemperer and above even Toscanini, whose reputation for strict adherence to the score was, in Canarina's view, less justified than Monteux's.

Janowski now holds the Otto Klemperer Guest Conductor Chair with the PSO.

There is, however, an exceptionally lengthy recording by Otto Klemperer, which is 100 minutes long, as well as a recording by Hermann Scherchen with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra that is 68 minutes long.

He was guest leader for two seasons of the New Philharmonia Orchestra working with Carlo Maria Giulini and Otto Klemperer.

The film presents a fictionalized account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, with Klemperer portraying Emil Hahn, a Nazi judge and one of the defendants at the trial.

Prior to Hogan's Heroes, Klemperer appeared in the 1956 episode ' Safe Conduct ' of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, along with future co-star John Banner ; twice appeared as Hugo on the syndicated romantic comedy series, How to Marry a Millionaire ( 1957 – 1959 ), with Barbara Eden and Merry Anders ; and appeared on the " Purple Gang " episode of The Untouchables.

After his father ’ s death in 1973, Klemperer expanded his acting career with musical roles in opera and Broadway musicals.

Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess.

Klemperer gave his immediate support, and on 17 March 1964 the members of the orchestra elected their own governing body and adopted the name New Philharmonia Orchestra.

Klemperer went on to hold a number of positions, in Hamburg ( 1910 – 1912 ); in Barmen ( 1912 – 1913 ); the Strasbourg Opera ( 1914 – 1917 ); the Cologne Opera ( 1917 – 1924 ); and the Wiesbaden Opera House ( 1924 – 1927 ).

Born in Cologne to a musical family, Klemperer was the son of the renowned Jewish-born conductor Otto Klemperer ( 1885 – 1973 ) and Johanna Geisler ( 1888 – 1956 ), a soprano.

The decline of his artistic fortunes began with the mixed reception given to Irrelohe ( Cologne, 1924 under Otto Klemperer ) and the failure of Der singende Teufel ( Berlin, 1928 under Erich Kleiber ).

He immediately became a second violinist in the Cologne Opera orchestra, but was dismissed from the position by Otto Klemperer for using his own bowings.

It was a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, conducted by Klemperer, who was now honorary president of the orchestra.

Later, in 1910, Klemperer assisted Mahler in the premiere of his Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand.

( a ) the Symphony No. 38 (" Prague ") of Mozart, another Klemperer specialty.

He can be seen playing in the violin section of the New Philharmonia Orchestra on the EMI Classics DVD " Otto Klemperer – Beethoven Symphony No. 9.

A member of the Board of Directors of the New York Chamber Symphony, Klemperer served as a narrator with many other American symphony orchestras.

She made her concert debut in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Otto Klemperer.

cover of the Klemperer / New Philharmonia 1964 recording of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony, reissued 2003

But in 1936 he was passed over in both-first in Philadelphia, where Eugene Ormandy succeeded Stokowski at the Philadelphia Orchestra, and then in New York, where Toscanini's departure left a vacancy at the New York Philharmonic but John Barbirolli and Artur Rodzinski were engaged in preference to Klemperer.

Klemperer had performed in Palestine before the state of Israel declared its independence, and returned to Jerusalem only in 1970 to conduct the Israeli Broadcasting Authority Symphonic Orchestra in two concerts, performing the six Brandenburg Concerti and Mozart's symphonies 39, 40 and 41.

* Otto Klemperer and the New Philharmonia Orchestra, recorded in 1968.

* Otto Klemperer and the New Philharmonia Orchestra, 1967.

** Otto Klemperer ( conductor ), Wilhelm Pitz ( choir director ) & the Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus for Bach: St. Matthew Passion

* St Matthew Passion ( Klemperer ), Philharmonia Orchestra ( EMI 1961 )

* A German Requiem ( Klemperer ), Philharmonia Orchestra ( EMI 1961 )

** Otto Klemperer ( conductor ), Wilhelm Pitz ( choir director ) & the Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus for Bach: St. Matthew Passion

* Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, with Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra on the Angel label

* Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, with Otto Klemperer, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on the EMI label 1961 recorded at Kingsway Hall in March 1961

* Otto Klemperer and New Philharmonia Orchestra © 2003 EMI Records Ltd ( recorded November 1964 ).

* March 21 & 23 1961-EMI records the legendary performance of Brahms German Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as soloists.