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  • Re: Knappertsbusch vs. Karajan

    From Andy Evans@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 14 10:36:05 2023
    On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:58:44 UTC, [email protected] wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:09:34 AM UTC-5, Willem Orange wrote:
    A recent thread on another topic called up some really funny stories concerning Hans Knappertsbusch and Herbert von Karajan. They both conducted at Bayreuth in 1951, both were great musicians but Kna had something Fluffy sorely lacked - a sense of
    humor which Kna used on Fluffy with devastating effect. When it was mentioned to him that Fluffy conducted with no score and eyes closed, Kna's response "Well that's because I know how to read music" Culshaw remarked that this wonderful conductor of
    Parsifal told some of the funniest dirty stories he ever heard.>>

    Can somebody remind me where the nickname Fluffy came from. I seem to remember that it was a woman friend but no more......

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to Andy Evans on Tue Feb 14 15:15:39 2023
    On 2/14/23 12:36 PM, Andy Evans wrote:
    On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:58:44 UTC, [email protected]
    wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:09:34 AM UTC-5, Willem Orange wrote:
    A recent thread on another topic called up some really funny
    stories concerning Hans Knappertsbusch and Herbert von Karajan.
    They both conducted at Bayreuth in 1951, both were great
    musicians but Kna had something Fluffy sorely lacked - a sense of
    humor which Kna used on Fluffy with devastating effect. When it
    was mentioned to him that Fluffy conducted with no score and eyes
    closed, Kna's response "Well that's because I know how to read
    music" Culshaw remarked that this wonderful conductor of Parsifal
    told some of the funniest dirty stories he ever heard.>>

    Can somebody remind me where the nickname Fluffy came from. I seem to remember that it was a woman friend but no more......

    The nickname is in the 1998 biography by Richard Osborne but it's not
    clear if the word was a translation from the German or if the woman used
    the English.

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  • From Dan Koren@21:1/5 to Andy Evans on Fri Feb 17 04:17:27 2023
    On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 10:36:07 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:

    Can somebody remind me where the nickname Fluffy came from.

    It was a reference to his mane.

    dk

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