Broken baton: Karajan is vandalized in Salzburg
mainA bronze statute of Herbert von Karajan in the garden on his Salzburg birthplace was attacked early on Saturday and severely damaged.
The baton was broken off and there may have been an attempt to topple the statue altogether.
No cause is known for the attack.
before…. after
Gad, a critic!
Looks more like Abbado than Karajan.
Conductor statues are (not) surprisingly rare. What other cities have public statues of conductors?
San Juan, Puerto Rico – Arturo Portela
Others?
Dimitri Mitropoulos in front of the Athens Conservatory. Very appropriate.
http://dp.iset.gr/en/artist/view.html?id=383&tab=artworks&start=16&limit=8
There is – or at least was – a bust of Barbirolli in the Festival Halll.
I believe there is a statue of Leonard Bernstein in Sapporo/Japan.
Yes, this is true. Barbirolli is on level 4. Images of the Bernstein statue (unveiled this summer) at: pmf.or.jp/en/gallery
We spend our lives on a pedestal. Who wants to see us there in death…? Well, perhaps the head mounted on a wall…
There is one in Oklahoma City — apparently to honour all of their orchestra’s conductors. I believe the face is of the current one. (Wonder of they plan to redo it every few years as conductors come and go…)