Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 6 ("THE PASTORAL") (RCA Victor). A sumptuous offering by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, encased in a fat album full of prints of famous landscape paintings and snatches from famous poems-all in celebration of nature...
...demerits of a Seidman and Son from a Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling is a lot like fingerprinting a Siamese twin. If Enter Laughing is a tiny cut above the breed, it is because Playwright Stein, who adapted his comedy from the autobiographical novel of TV Comedian Carl Reiner, retains stubborn, slightly awkward traces of honest observation. He knows that the immigrant family walks on American soil hopefully, but always with the small secret fear that it is treading quicksand. A name change may spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural...
...Chicago Symphony Orchestra has begun a period of transition that could last another three or four years until things settle down. Before his resignation last spring, Fritz Reiner, 74, built the Chicago into one of the best-disciplined orchestras in the world. Chicago's new man, who will arrive next season, is Jean Martinon, 53, a composer and conductor and presently the General Music Director in Düsseldorf. Martinon, a Frenchman, will inherit the most Germanic orchestra outside Germany...
LITTLE OWL, by Reiner Zimnik, illustrated by Hanne Axmann (Atheneum; $3.50), is a translation from German of a tale about a peeping-owl. The illustrations convey with charm and mystery a mocking view of the foolish fears that isolate adults from the pleasant world of children and small animals...
...Reiner's "special school" depicts a new low in education. The Midtown "Disneyland" is not a school: it is an excuse for people who want to learn by the made-simple method. It is an example of the chaos and purposelessness that permeates education today...