tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post6033489843287388253..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: On ClassicsToday: Wilhelm Kempff's Schubert, neither Titanic nor TeutonicCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-51860344668467258132019-05-19T15:17:38.840-05:002019-05-19T15:17:38.840-05:00Thanks so much, Mr. Reith, for sharing that experi...Thanks so much, Mr. Reith, for sharing that experience. I can just about (though not quite, of course) imagine what that might have been like. Kempff may not be a musician of or for superlatives, but he certainly was a very special artist!jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-88328140071980172702019-05-14T21:48:38.965-05:002019-05-14T21:48:38.965-05:00As a graduate student in the early 1970s, research...As a graduate student in the early 1970s, researching my doctoral dissertatin the history of the Lutheran Reformation in Württemberg, I heard a recital by Wilhelm Kempf in the Stuttgart L:iederhalle - I still remember how I joined about 100 of his admirers who thronged to the front of the auditorium and stood around the stage while he played at least a dozen encores. What I distinctly remember Dr Louis J. Reithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15881557499313322041noreply@blogger.com