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...Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians, peacefully packing their instruments after rehearsal, gave a startled gasp. Across the stage, bellowing like a Straussian tuba, rushed Henry H. Reichhold, the terrible-tempered industrialist (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) and chief financial backer of the orchestra. His shouts were directed at First Cellist Georges Miquelle for "disloyalty." Miquelle left, but his leaving snapped an old and mounting tension...
...came from Detroit's music lover Henry Reichhold, who runs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Reichhold's publicity men snagged newspaper space by calling Prizewinner Robertson a cowboy-composer. Actually, though Robertson did herd sheep in Utah as a boy, he is a music professor at Brigham Young University, and winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle award in 1944 for a string quartet. He had not even entered Reichhold's contest: he sent the score, signed "Nostrebor" (his name spelled backwards) to his New York publisher, who entered it without Robertson's knowledge...
...HENRY H. REICHHOLD President, Detroit Symphony Orchestra New York City...
...Henry Reichhold, chairman of Detroit's Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., world's biggest synthetic resin maker, has developed an unbreakable plastic which he claims is cheaper than Victor's. He has bought Cosmopolitan Records, Inc. (Cosmo), which is already producing 800,000 shellac records a month. After the first of the year, Reichhold expects to make 200,000 unbreakable records monthly-selling between 50? and 75? apiece. As president of the Detroit Symphony, he expects to give Victor a run for its money in classical as well as popular records...
Already this season Carnegie Hall had passed judgment on visiting orchestras from Boston, Washington, Indianapolis, Philadelphia. Detroit invaded Manhattan last week with a new technique. From preconcert cocktails to whopping, colorful programs, Henry Reichhold's Symphony treated Carnegie Hall to a deft, well-planned, super-sales-promotion campaign...