Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philharmonic, going it alone, catches the playful bustle of An American in Paris (Columbia, 4 sides). ¶Porgy and Bess, fancied up in a symphonic version by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Columbia, 6 sides), and more glossily by Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony (Victor, 6 sides), is best in its original operatic mold (Decca, 14 sides). ¶Andre Kostelanetz spreads his corn syrup over The Music of Gershwin (Columbia, 8 sides...
Wagner: Album of Five Orchestral Excerpts (Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). Generally well-tooled treatments of the Meistersinger Prelude, the Forest Murmurs, the Walkiirenritt and the Preludes to the first and third acts of Lohengrin. Recording: good...
...Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony of Washington, D.C. (Hans Kindler); Pittsburgh (Fritz Reiner); Rochester (José Iturbi); Indianapolis (Fabien Sevitzky). Of the 18 major-league orchestras only one looked like a war casualty: the Kansas City Philharmonic had lost its conductor, Karl Krueger, to Detroit and had as yet no plans...
...javelin throw, H. Reiner, a Quartermaster ROTC student, finished second. His throw actually bettered any of his competitors' but since he was the scratch man, his efforts only landed him in second place...
...Holyoke, first; H. Reiner, second; D. M. Lion, third. Distance...