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Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess.
He was drawn to the growing cultural life of Los Angeles, especially during World War II, when so many writers, musicians, composers and conductors settled in the area: these included Otto Klemperer, Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, George Balanchine and Arthur Rubinstein.
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.
During the 1930s and 1940s, its roster of artists included Arturo Toscanini, Sir Edward Elgar, and Otto Klemperer, among many others.
Among the guests were Elgar, Beecham, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Serge Koussevitzky ; soloists in the 1920s included Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Schnabel and the young Yehudi Menuhin.
Otto Klemperer became Music Director in 1933, part of the large group of German emigrants fleeing Nazi Germany.
Needing to find a new conductor for the orchestra, Legge turned to Otto Klemperer, whose career was flagging at the time.
Otto Klemperer was born in Breslau, Silesia Province, then in Germany ( now Wrocław, Poland ), as a son of Nathan Klemperer, a native of Prague, Bohemia ( today's Czech Republic ).
" Joseph Horowitz, Review, The American Scholar, Spring 1997 ( v. 66, pp. 307-10 ); Peter Heyworth, Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times, Cambridge UP, Vols 1 and 2 ; 1996 ; ISBN-10: 0521244889 ISBN-13: 978-0521244886.
Joseph Horowitz, Review, The American Scholar, Spring 1997 ( v. 66, pp. 307-10 ). Peter Heyworth, Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times, Cambridge UP, Vols 1 and 2 ; 1996 ; ISBN-10: 0521244889 ISBN-13: 978-0521244886
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
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