Watch: A conductor takes flight
mainNot an orchestra in sight.
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Remember Edwardo Mata.
And: Karajan!
And pianist Walter Oppitz.
… and remembering that Mata died because his plane crashed.
It still hurts….he died due to the crash in january 1995. A few weeks earlier i wittnessed his final concert in Rotterdam with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. The complete balletmusic from “El Sombrero”, de Falla. Without any doubt he was (maybe is) the best conductor for this music…I cherish also deeply his recording(s)of music from his compatriot Revueltas
Michael Christie, former music director of the Phoenix Symphony and also Melbourne, now at the opera in Minneapolis, flies his own plane all over.
Hi Daniel!
Daniel Harding has a full (A320?) simulator ($$$$$) in his Paris basement.
He’s nuts about flying.
Boeing 737NG (737-600/-700/-800/-900 types) simulator.
From time index 7:40 onward…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqqdLzWPNA
That documentary shows him also fly a real plane. He must have money to burn.
Is that Andrew Staples in the backseat?
Yes it is Andy – who, I think,filmed it?
What’s the music?
The main theme from the film 633 Squadron by Ron Goodwin
My friend Daniel Szomogy-Toth conductor in Debrecen, Hungary, is a licensed pilot of big planes