Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when...
...famed obese comic-strip caperer, deceived his frau by making a balloon facsimile of himself, painting his vapid likeness on it, stuffing it into bed. Last week a helium-inflated Captain 50 feet tall floated off over Long Island. Fashioned by Tony Sarg, Manhattan marionetteer, the Captain, Hans und Fritz, Herr Inspektor & Frau Katzenjammer together with gargantuan balloon animals of indeterminate breed and sex, had bobbled down Broadway. An admiring crowd had watched their maudlin progress to the front of the R. H. Macy's (department store)?which they were advertising. There the ropes were cut and the Katzenjammers...
...season under the auspices of the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. Now assisting in its support will be a new fund-$2,000,000 contributed by the general public, $2,000,000 and more (reckoning real estate and works of art) by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft. Again Fritz Reiner is conductor. The Minneapolis Symphony, under Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, favored first this year the twin-citizens of St. Paul, played its second concert at home. Again the orchestra will take a midwinter tour as far as Havana, and a spring tour, adding to its present total...
Other major U. S. orchestras, so classified on the basis of schedules, budgets and excellence, begin their seasons soon. They are, with their conductors, the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky; the Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock; the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra...
...granted him medals and prizes of honor: Franklin Institute (Potts and Franklin medals), Paris 1900 Exposition, Louisiana Purchase 1904 Exposition, Institute of Architects. Last week the four great American engineering societies - civil engineers, mining & metallurgical engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers - gave him their most prized honor, the John Fritz gold medal for "scientific and industrial achievements." Last recipient, honored last April, was President Herbert Clark Hoover...