Feeling Frankly Worse Than Usual....

[Nick Armstrong]

Best wishes to FWM for a rapid recovery: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21995170

[french frank]

Yes, indeed. Hard to cure that sort of backpain, especially with an occupation that demands so much energy and stamina.

[Petrushka]

One remembers how Karajan struggled with back pain especially in his last years.

Best wishes to FWM and a great thread title, Caliban!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Best wishes indeed.

Mind you, after act 1, the rest of Parsifal is Frankly a pain in the, er, back.

[amateur51]

Haitink has suffered with back pain over the years too I understand and those videos of Knappertsbusch making his way gingerly to the podium & sitting down suggest that he suffered too.

Best wishes FWM ... and to all chums on here who suffer similarly

[Serial_Apologist]

Haitink has suffered with back pain over the years too I understand and those videos of Knappertsbusch making his way gingerly to the podium & sitting down suggest that he suffered too.

Best wishes FWM ... and to all chums on here who suffer similarly

Thanks Ams - have to be very careful getting out of bed, but moderate exercise keeps the problem manageable in my case. Salymap will appreciate this too.

PS the official ascription of "lumbago" went out a few years ago, I think.

[richardfinegold]

Thanks Ams - have to be very careful getting out of bed, but moderate exercise keeps the problem manageable in my case. Salymap will appreciate this too.

PS the official ascription of "lumbago" went out a few years ago, I think.

Actually, ICD-9 and ICD-10 still use "Lumbago" as a diagnostic code. I still chuckle every time that I have to code it after seeing a Patient with back pain.
Regarding FWM, who is notoriously sensitive to criticism (he reportedly had the chief Critic of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper fired for perceived negative reviews of himself), would it be uncharitable to suggest that one of his critics finally succeeded in stabbing him in the back?

[amateur51]

Actually, ICD-9 and ICD-10 still use "Lumbago" as a diagnostic code. I still chuckle every time that I have to code it after seeing a Patient with back pain.
Regarding FWM, who is notoriously sensitive to criticism (he reportedly had the chief Critic of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper fired for perceived negative reviews of himself), would it be uncharitable to suggest that one of his critics finally succeeded in stabbing him in the back?

Given the treatment meted out to him by London's critical press during his tenure at the LPO, I'm not surprised that FWM is 'notoriously sensitive to criticism'

Best not to respond tho - a bit like being on here some days

[DracoM]

OK, BUT, FGS, not a mention of the name of the brave, amazing soul who stepped in to take over........I mean, at the Wiener Staatsoper? in Parsifal????
We're not talking Walthamstow Town Hall here......so who was it?

[french frank]

OK, BUT, FGS, not a mention of the name of the brave, amazing soul who stepped in to take over........I mean, at the Wiener Staatsoper? in Parsifal????
We're not talking Walthamstow Town Hall here......so who was it?

Apparently continued under 'Vienna State Opera staff conductor James Pearson'.

[salymap]

I wish FWM a quick and complete recovery, but let'shope that, if he wants it, a brilliant future opens for James Pearson.

And for the doctor posting earlier, I have a bad sacro-iliac dispacement, no longer treatable by osteopaths owing to age and osteoporosis.I remember when back trouble of any kind was often used in comedy programmes - funny it ain't.

[DracoM]

Adam Fischer takes over conducting Parsifal [his debut in the piece in Vienna] as from April 4th.

[BBMmk2]

Adam Fischer ehy? Not bad! Wishing FWM all the best(hmm anyone here know him?)