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...Europe last summer, General Manager Edward Johnson* thought he had found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...
BartÓk: Concerto for Orchestra (the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). The last to be recorded and possibly the finest of the late Béla Bartók's last great works. Fritz Reiner makes the wait worthwhile. Recording: good...
...Self-Evident Suppositions." The new mayor was plump, balding Friedrich ("Fritz") Ebert, renegade son of a famed father. The elder Ebert was the first president of the Weimar Republic, a vigilant democrat who was credited with squelching the Communist uprising of 1918. Fritz, the son, opposed Hitlerism at first and spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...
When the great gold brocade curtains parted, the two audiences could see & hear for themselves that the Met hadn't really changed its ways. The opening storm music that the Met's best conductor, Fritz Busch, whipped out of his pit orchestra was only faintly furious. Tenor Vinay sang powerfully, and what top notes he couldn't sing he shouted. But Booth's burnoose could not disguise his lurching, hand-wringing acting. Like most Met stage lovers, he more often sang of his passion to Conductor Busch, at whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona...
...many campuses, usually proved duds at Harvard. Only once a year did the mask of indifference drop-the weekend that Harvard met Yale. Then past Crimson heroes, old and out-of-shape, revisited Cambridge to talk do-or-die. This year, Harvard had imported Art Valpey (formerly one of Fritz Crisler's aides at Michigan), and the old order changed...