Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians, peacefully packing their instruments after rehearsal, gave a startled gasp. Across the stage, bellowing like a Straussian tuba, rushed Henry H. Reichhold, the terrible-tempered industrialist (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) and chief financial backer of the orchestra. His shouts were directed at First Cellist Georges Miquelle for "disloyalty." Miquelle left, but his leaving snapped an old and mounting tension...
...last three years, some Detroit Symphony musicians had been muttering an obbligato behind their music sheets about the musical methods and tastes of their conductor, Karl Krueger, the 55-year-old Kansan who had led the Seattle and Kansas City orchestras out of a musical desert. Reichhold had an answer to that: "Perhaps the American public hasn't learned to appreciate the German school of conducting of which Krueger is a disciple. I like this way of playing music, and it's the kind of music Detroit is going to get." Furthermore, he said: "I think a good...
Frozen Up. Symphony President Reichhold was confident that he had most of the musicians and concertgoers behind him. In origin and implication, he maintained, the dissensions were "entirely political and in no sense musical." Whatever their implication, the dissensions continued. The Detroit local of the American Federation of Musicians disbanded the musicians' committee that had been dealing with the symphony management. Reichhold posted notice that the orchestra's 28-concert spring tour...
...Coming, Where? When?" "Why the Smoker, on the twenty third" "How could I? We are scheduled to be in Detroit then...
...Detroit 8, New York...