Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor (Emil Gilels; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor). Soviet Pianist Gilels in a splendid version of this oft-mauled work. With the driving assistance of one of the most effective orchestras in the U.S.. he turns in a performance that is always at the peak of expression, whether tender, fiery or aggressive...
...denounced as "degenerate" by Hitler, there were only two choices if they were to continue as artists: get out of Germany or go underground. Painters Paul Klee, George Grosz, Josef Albers and Architect Walter Gropius managed to escape; one of the few who chose to remain and survived is Fritz Winter, today rated as Germany's leading abstract-expressionist. To celebrate Winter's 50th birthday, Munich's Günther Franke Gallery is staging a showing of 46 of his paintings, ranging from 1929 to the present. The Munich retrospective, and a current exhibition now on display...
Last week, with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, Janos Starker played a piece that might reduce many a strong man to sentimentality-Schumann's Cello Concerto. Under the pale lights, Starker's sunken cheeks looked drained of blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called...
...people involved, the result is often ludicrous. At times, as when Dreyfus lumbers across the parade ground where he has just been stripped of his rank and yells "I'm innocent," at the top of his lungs, the picture seems almost embarassing. The fault here is that of Fritz Kortner, who plays Dreyfus. His acting style is so restrained that he just does not register any sort of emotion. Heinrich George, as Zola, has the same trouble; his performance consists almost entirely of grunts and a flood of impassioned but unconvincing oratory. Only one actor, the great German performer Albert...
This support has included sponsorship of the work in cell metabolism of Dr. Fritz Lipmann, professor of Biological Chemistry, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine...