100 Years Of Konzertdirektion Adler

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From Barenboim to Liberace, from Maria Callas to Ella Fitzgerald: Vítek eagle many Stars of the music business has ever known. Almost all of the head of the concert Department, Adler also Personal can tell.

20. September 2018, the conductor Daniel Barenboim and the violinist Anne-Sophie mutter occur at a charity concert in the Berlin Philharmonie. On the occasion of the 100. Anniversary of the founding of the prestigious Konzertdirektion Adler. Their head, to write his eagle, is on 30. July 2018 and will become 90 years old. And probably the oldest artists ‘ agent in the world.

After the end of the Second world war, Adler was fired in September 1945 from a prisoner of war and a rose in 1947 to the concert management business. In 1948, after the death of his father, Hans Adler, he took over the management of the Konzertdirektion Adler. In the post-war period, Vítek, Adler participated significantly in the reconstruction of musical life in Germany.

Exceptional talent: the violinist Yehudi Menuhin

Among his most important priorities to attract foreign, and above all Jewish artists in the country. Some refused for a long time, others, such as the Jewish violinist Yehudi Menuhin, gave morning concerts in the sign of the reconciliation of the former war enemies.

Vítek, Adler was impressed by the character of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. “For him, only one thing was important: The question of ‘What is right? What must a man do?’ And: ‘You have to help.’ He was a very uncomplicated person,” says Adler in the DW-interview.

Living encyclopedia of music

The list of world-famous artists who has managed to write his eagle, is a long one. To jazz musicians like Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson, the singers Sammy Davis Jr belonged to. or the shrill American Pianist Liberace. For the most part, however, there are classical artists: Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, David Garrett and many more.

The American Pianist Valentino Liberace came through eagle to Berlin

Anyone who has met so many celebrities over the years, do not know if an artist is Moody, capricious, or unpredictable – and only at 70 percent humidity in the room to play the violin. This artists are about as different as other people. “I have said again and again: As a Manager, we act together with people, so with human error,” says Adler. “I would not say that there is an artist’s nature.”

Leonard Bernstein, We were not as an example such as: “it is quite reasonable to each other, there was between us a lot of Theater,” says Adler: “I was present at every concert. He has insisted on it. Also with Herbert von Karajan, I had a very good connection. He for me was never difficult.”

Herbert von Karajan with Anne-Sophie mutter

Career helper for Anne-Sophie mutter

Adler was the conductor Herbert von Karajan with the 13-year-old violinist Anne-Sophie mutter brought together: their joint performance of Mozart’s G major violin Concerto at the Salzburg Whitsun festival in the year 1977 is considered to be the beginning and the starting point of the career of the young violinist.

In the years before the konzertdirektion Adler was in charge of the RIAS Symphony orchestra (later “Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin”). In the concert series “RIAS were young artists” who had never played in Berlin. “At some point, the Name of Daniel Barenboim came to us on the Desk, and we have him committed,” reported the eagle in the DW-interview.

“We had invited the artistic Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker Wolfgang Stresemann to the concert. In the Pause, he then said to me: ‘How the because with 40 games, if he plays like this now?’ These were the first impressions of Barenboim. Now we are responsible now for nearly 55 years. It has become a very intense friendship.”

Daniel Barenboim as a very young Pianist

Great voices, famous name

The contact with the Italian Opera singer Maria Callas, in contrast, was only fleeting – even if many Vítek eagle envy yet about: “We have performed your last concert in Berlin, together with the Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano. Because something went messed up, I had the honor to drive you in my car to the Hotel. She had just got a little bear as a gift, it said: ‘the greatest singer in the world’. She said to me: ‘you take!’ The bear is still at my house.”

To one of his precious memorabilia, a drawing, created by the German-American composer Paul Hindemith. Two eagles sitting on a Branch. In front of the tree, Hindemith, and conducted. The inscription under the drawing: “around, too!”

Paul Hindemith made a drawing of Adler

Everything better back then?

The classical audience is ageing, it is often claimed by critics. Also in this issue, Vítek’s eagle long-term perspective is enlightening: “We have said in our concerts always have a lot of young people,” says Adler. “They marry, have children and don’t have much time and so much money to go to the concert. When this period is over, you are a bit older, but then you go back to the concert. And you are suddenly the old audience.”

Of music competitions, jurors report that the technical level of young musicians has increased over the years and in the course of the generations. If today more and more artists are therefore in appearance? “The technology is really advanced,” says Vítek eagle. “But the artist, as such, alone will, therefore, not better. With the technique it begins. I don’t go to the tailor and ask him how he can sew. When I go to the tailor, I expect that he makes me a decent suit.”

The man who understands the artist: Vítek Adler at the ceremony of the Live Entertainment Awards (2009)

Eagle looks despite his age, confident in the future: “We offer the charisma of an artist, and exclusive. Everything else has to go through any media. As long as it is desired to have, and I’m not Worried.”

The concert-Direktion Hans Adler is celebrating its 100-year anniversary on June 20. September 2018 in the Philharmonie in Berlin with the first appearance of Anne-Sophie mutter and Daniel Barenboim as a Duo. The income of the charity concert will go to the foundations of the two artists for the promotion of young musicians.