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...sprawling garden suite at Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel one evening last week, Composer Fritz Loewe rippled at the piano while a companion paced and hummed. This was not Lerner and Loewe at work, but Loewe enjoying himself and TIME Senior Editor Henry Grunwald mixing work with some nostalgia. The Loewe-Grunwald repertoire: songs from Countess-Maritza and The Smiling Husband by the late Austrian Librettist, Alfred Grunwald, whom Composer Loewe knew back in Vienna more than 30 years ago, and who was Editor Grunwald's father. To his astonishment, Grunwald found that Loewe remembered more...
...Meistersinger: The third act has served as a classic test for conducting speed, and no one has ever matched the spectacular time of one hour and 54 minutes registered by Fritz Busch...
...found that white ash grown on eastern or northern slopes has a bat's best qualities-resiliency and strength. The most important ingredient is careful labor. So skilled an art is hand fashioning that H. & B. has only four qualified bat turners, overseen by 65-year-old Fritz Bickel. Bat turning, says Bickel, "is like painting and music. You've either got the exact touch or you haven...
...well as a regiment of newsmen and TV contingents, crowded into the Biltmore's ballroom for what was now billed as something like the Lincoln-Douglas debates. While the crowd waited and Lyndon orated, Jack sat tight in his room. At last South Carolina's Governor Fritz Hollings phoned. "You're going down to that debate, aren't you?" he asked. No, said Jack. "You'd better do it," drawled Hollings. "I'm watching that man on TV and he'll ruin you if you don't." Jack went...
...conductor: "I suppose you can only compare it with a religious conversion. Suddenly the spirit reveals itself to you; suddenly you understand what music is all about." The "nearest thing to professional training" that Clarinetist Davis got was the opportunity to play under, and observe, Conductor Fritz Busch as a member of the Glyndebourne Orchestra. Davis then led a number of small instrumental and singing groups, was eventually hired as assistant conductor by both Sadler's Wells and the BBC's Scottish Orchestra. Last fall he took over on 24 hours' notice for the ailing Otto Klemperer...