Katharina Wolpe RIP

[amateur51]

Now merged.

Many thanks, kernel

[salymap]

Now merged.

Yes thanks Kernel, now all I've got to do is remember to listen.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes thanks Kernel, now all I've got to do is remember to listen.

Sorry? Listen to what?

[teamsaint]

Has somebody reminded Salymap?!

[salymap]

Has somebody reminded Salymap?!

Salymap has remembered thanks

[teamsaint]

Salymap has remembered thanks

excellent. Was hoping to listen live, but might have to be iplayer now.

[teamsaint]

he interview was certainly worth hearing, as was the first half of the concert.

I am pretty certain there must have been lots of other interesting material as well......

[salymap]

Martin said she hadn't been well and she did fade off once or twice, or was it my computer? What a life and I think he said her second husband has just died. She's been through so much and giving a concert in March. What a girl! And Isee Humphrey Bogart in a new light. Good for him.

[teamsaint]

Martin said she hadn't been well and she did fade off once or twice, or was it my computer? What a life and I think he said her second husband has just died. She's been through so much and giving a concert in March. What a girl! And Isee Humphrey Bogart in a new light. Good for him.

yes that was interesting about Bogart. The Mahler must have influenced him !!
I would have liked to have heard more about the music written for her, and how she felt about it.
It wasn't exactly crystal clear on iplayer, so I did miss the odd line.

[salymap]

yes that was interesting about Bogart. The Mahler must have influenced him !!
I would have liked to have heard more about the music written for her, and how she felt about it.
It wasn't exactly crystal clear on iplayer, so I did miss the odd line.

I'm afraid I missed some of it live and on iPlayer, but then I have tinnitus which didn't help.

[kernelbogey]

he interview was certainly worth hearing, as was the first half of the concert.

I am pretty certain there must have been lots of other interesting material as well......

Yes, they must have a lot more 'on tape' - I hope they'll make a longer programme out of the material. She rather skipped over what must have been awful years in Switzerland, abandoned by both parents - extraordinary.

[Flosshilde]

he interview was certainly worth hearing, as was the first half of the concert.

I am pretty certain there must have been lots of other interesting material as well......

Yes, it was fascinating, although with one or two rather infelicitous comments about the time when she & her parents were 'collected' by the Germans - she mentioned how excited she had been, as that was the first time she had seen men - well, apart from Jewish intellectuals (said with a rather dismissive tone), and that the German soldiers were 'dressed to kill'. I assume she meant it in the sense of dressed in their best, or at their most impressive, but ...

[salymap]

Katharina Wolpe RIP

A MB member has just told me the sad news. Apologies if there has been a thread earlier.

Apparently she was killed in an accident on February 10th - I know she was due to give a concert or recital in March.

I wrote about my brief meetings with her elsewhere when she actually came to see my boss several times in the late 1960s.

RIP Katharina Wolpe

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/22/katharina-wolpe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6vNBgIZts

[kernelbogey]

A MB member has just told me the sad news. Apologies if there has been a thread earlier[....]
RIP Katharina Wolpe

What very sad news. After all that....

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