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...Detroit Symphony Orchestra's President Henry H. Reichhold had threatened his rebellious musicians with a good ''house cleaning," if they didn't behave (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week, most of Detroit's musicians were wondering if Reichhold had already gotten out his broom...
...last three years, some Detroit Symphony musicians had been muttering an obbligato behind their music sheets about the musical methods and tastes of their conductor, Karl Krueger, the 55-year-old Kansan who had led the Seattle and Kansas City orchestras out of a musical desert. Reichhold had an answer to that: "Perhaps the American public hasn't learned to appreciate the German school of conducting of which Krueger is a disciple. I like this way of playing music, and it's the kind of music Detroit is going to get." Furthermore, he said: "I think a good...
Frozen Up. Symphony President Reichhold was confident that he had most of the musicians and concertgoers behind him. In origin and implication, he maintained, the dissensions were "entirely political and in no sense musical." Whatever their implication, the dissensions continued. The Detroit local of the American Federation of Musicians disbanded the musicians' committee that had been dealing with the symphony management. Reichhold posted notice that the orchestra's 28-concert spring tour...
...also, apparently, frozen up their playing, and Detroit critics were quick to notice it. Wrote the Detroit Times after a concert last week: "A morass of spotty mediocrity . . . the low point of the season." After the next night's repeat performance, Reichhold grabbed a real hot potato with both hands. He rushed backstage, delivered an ultimatum: "Either the orchestra does something immediately about the press, or 90 men will be out of a job. Dr. Krueger and I have fought bad publicity by ourselves long enough. Now it's up to you." He ordered them to protest...
...Boss Reichhold and Conductor Krueger hurriedly called a peace meeting with the press-but the boss had one more threat to deliver. Said Reichhold: if reports of dissension within the organization continued, he would withdraw his financial support from the orchestra. He would make up his mind within the next three weeks...