Word: linz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Ormandy was in Chicago, mandarin-faced Conductor Reiner walked onto the stage of Philadelphia's Academy of Music, acknowledged the orchestra's standing tribute with a frozen smile and launched into a program that included Berlioz' Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Mozart's "Linz" Symphony, Ravel's Rapsodie Esbagnole, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Although Reiner had rehearsed the orchestra only three times, his performance was a stunning revelation...
...Birth of a Performance (Columbia). A detailed rehearsal scene, with fatherly Conductor Bruno Walter explaining Mozart's "Linz" Symphony...
...case there is any doubt just what a conductor is good for, Columbia has released a fascinating and informative album called The Birth of a Performance. The music is Mozart's "Linz" Symphony (No. 36) and the star is Conductor Bruno Walter, 79. Three of the four sides are devoted to rehearsal (the fourth is the finished performance), with Walter's kindly voice correcting, explaining, singing (off key), completely unaware that he is being recorded...
Loving from Afar. The only friend of Hitler's youth was a music-loving upholsterer's son named August Kubizek. For four years (1904-08) he roomed and studied with the young Hitler in the grey Austrian city of Linz and later in Vienna. In Kubizek's unpretentious account of those years, Hitler's hitherto obscure adolescence emerges as a fascinating story...
...Bavaria and western Austria, rain fell steadily for two weeks. The Inn, Traun, Enns and Ilz Rivers, swollen and heavy with flotsam, emptied into the surging Danube. At points of confluence, Passau and Linz, there was catastrophe. At Linz, in three days, the Danube doubled in width and tripled in depth, forcing 15,000 people to leave their homes. At Passau the river stage was 40 feet, 22 inches higher than the previous record...