Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Damrosch first hinted that his days of active service were numbered, Manhattan has known the New York Symphony Society to be on the lookout for a new and permanent conductor. The German Otto Klemperer (Wiesbaden) was imported for two seasons, tried and found wanting. So was the German Fritz Busch (Dresden) who just completed a trial term of nearly three months. Not for some time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed from Detroit, brought it a sensitive, self-effacing performance of Haydn...
Habitual listeners to the Philadelphia Orchestra, present at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, for its first concert there this season, were shocked though not surprised to see, standing upon the conductor's stand, the unfamiliar figure of Fritz Reiner, leader of the Cincinnati Symphony. Though aware that famed Leopold Stokowski was taking a year's leave of absence, they had half expected to see the sharp and mobile curlicue of his conjuror's face, to be entertained by the hunch-ings and bendings of his thin black back, to listen to the superb and golden music which...
...York Symphony*- for seven years Leopold, its founder; for the last 42 Walter, the son. But at the first of the golden anniversary concerts given last week Walter Damrosch was not in his usual place, sat instead in the centre box and led the applause for Fritz Busch. Guests followed his lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera for the first half season, then Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit...
...Philadelphia Orchestra began with Fritz Reiner of the Cincinnati Symphony for guest the first half season. Sir Thomas Beecham (England), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit), Josef Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Pierre Monteux (France) and Frederick Stock (Chicago) are possibilities for portions of the last half. Conductor Leopold Stokowski (whose arm is lamed) sailed last week for Europe and the Orient, to be away a year looking for new, unusual music...
...Monte Carlo Opera made his debut at a concert given for the delegates to the American Public Health Association. Each concert, it was announced, will be dedicated to a Cincinnati institution, those in the first half season to be led by Conductor de Sabata, after Jan. 6 by Fritz Reiner, now in Philadelphia on leave of absence. Vladmir Bakaleinikov will lead the popular and young people's concerts...