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Klemperer and on
Judgment at Nuremberg provided key early roles for two actors who would later become prominent in TV and film during the 1960s: Werner Klemperer as Emil Hahn, one of the judges on trial, and William Shatner as Captain Byers.
The two men became friends, and Klemperer became conductor at the German Opera in Prague in 1907 on Mahler's recommendation.
Mahler wrote a short testimonial, recommending Klemperer, on a small card which Klemperer kept for the rest of his life.
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 ).
His son, Werner Klemperer, was an actor and became known for his portrayal of Colonel Klink on the US television show Hogan's Heroes.
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 ).
Werner Klemperer ( March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000 ) was a comedic and dramatic actor, best known for his role as Colonel Klink on the CBS television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes.
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.
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.
Klemperer, conscious that he would be playing the role of a German officer during the Nazi regime, agreed to the part only on the condition that Klink would be portrayed as a fool who never succeeded.
After Cambridge, Richard Armstrong joined the music staff of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where he worked with Georg Solti on the Ring, with Carlo Maria Giulini on La traviata, with Otto Klemperer on Fidelio and with Rafael Kubelík on Jenůfa.
* 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
His recording of Fidelio under Klemperer has been compared unfavourably with Klemperer's contemporaneous live recording from Covent Garden, on the grounds that Legge's chosen singers were less effective than their ROH rivals.
His recordings of The Dream of Gerontius ( Sargent ), Tristan und Isolde ( Furtwängler ), Tosca ( De Sabata ), Der Rosenkavalier and Falstaff ( Karajan ), Così fan tutte ( Böhm ) and the core German symphonic repertory ( Klemperer ) have remained in the catalogue for decades, first on LP and then on CD.
With the end of the war, and the prohibition on powered flight in Germany, the firm began to specialise in sailplane construction, and in 1921 became known as Aachener Segelflugzeugbau, producing designs by Wolfgang Klemperer.
Klemperer went on to become a significant post-war cultural figure in East-Germany, lecturing at the universities of Greifswald, Berlin and Halle.

Klemperer and March
* March 22 – Werner Klemperer, German actor ( d. 2000 )
Around 1954, Herbert von Karajan flew especially to hear Klemperer conduct a performance of the Eroica, and later he said to him: " I have come only to thank you, and say that I hope I shall live to conduct the Funeral March as well as you have done ".
* 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.

Klemperer and 1964
Later recipients include Arthur Compton ( 1954 ), Hermann Hesse ( 1954 ), Albert Schweitzer ( 1954 ), Thomas Mann ( 1955 ), Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955 ), Carl Orff ( 1956 ), Erwin Schrödinger ( 1956 ), Thornton Wilder ( 1956 ), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1956 ), Werner Heisenberg ( 1957 ), Gerhard Ritter ( 1957 ), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( 1957 ), Percy Ernst Schramm ( 1958 ), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ( 1961 ), Karl Jaspers ( 1964 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1967 ), Carl Zuckmayer ( 1967 ), Henry Moore ( 1972 ), Raymond Aron ( 1973 ), George F. Kennan ( 1976 ), Friedrich Hayek ( 1977 ), Karl Popper ( 1980 ), Eugène Ionesco ( 1983 ), Hans Bethe ( 1984 ), Gordon A. Craig ( 1990 ), Rudolf Mößbauer ( 1996 ), Umberto Eco ( 1998 ), Hans Magnus Enzensberger ( 1999 ), and Wim Wenders ( 2005 ).
In 1964, concerned at what he saw as falling standards, Legge disbanded the orchestra, which at once re-formed as the New Philharmonia, without him but with Klemperer as chief conductor.
cover of the Klemperer / New Philharmonia 1964 recording of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony, reissued 2003
* Otto Klemperer and New Philharmonia Orchestra © 2003 EMI Records Ltd ( recorded November 1964 ).

Klemperer and members
Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess.
Klemperer ( l .) with members of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1954

Klemperer and orchestra
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.
The orchestra responded well to his leadership, but Klemperer had a difficult time adjusting to Southern California, a situation exacerbated by repeated manic-depressive episodes.
Needing to find a new conductor for the orchestra, Legge turned to Otto Klemperer, whose career was flagging at the time.
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.
It was a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, conducted by Klemperer, who was now honorary president of the orchestra.
While the orchestra responded well to his leadership, Klemperer had a difficult time adjusting to Southern California, a situation exacerbated by repeated manic-depressive episodes, reportedly as a result of severe cyclothymic bipolar disorder.
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.
In 1937, Otto Klemperer was brought in to reorganise the orchestra, quickly raising the orchestra to an international level.
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.

Klemperer and elected
For many years, Klemperer was an elected member of the council of Actors ' Equity Association, and was a vice president of the union at the time of his death.

Klemperer and their
They transformed their home world, and several other astronomical bodies, into a Klemperer rosette, in order to flee a galactic catastrophe.
They moved their planet further from their sun, to lessen the effects of global warming, but overindustrialisation forced them to move four of the other planets in their system closer to their world and terraform them into " farming worlds ", arranging the five planets into a Klemperer rosette ( though Niven misspelled " Klemperer " as " Kemplerer ").
The term " Klemperer rosette " ( often misspelled " Kemplerer rosette ") is often used to mean a configuration of three or more equal masses, set at the points of an equilateral polygon and given an equal angular velocity about their center of mass.
But it changes the value of words and the frequency of their occurrence, it makes common property out of what was previously the preserve of an individual or a tiny group, it commandeers for the party that which was previously common property and in the process steeps words and groups of words and sentence structures with its poison .< Ref > Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist's Notebook, trans.

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