Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because his idea of education is a rather special one, Ken Reiner was disgusted with his daughter's lack of progress in public school. Because he is a millionaire, he found a rather special solution to his problem. He built a school of his own, and now that it is in operation. Reiner and his children are content. It is a rather special school...
Represented among the collectors are classmates David Rockefeller, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., George Franklin, Sydney Freedberg, Paul Geir, James Laughlin, Gordon Palmer, Albert Reiner, and Ernest Teves...
...time when he became so elated at a New York Philharmonic rehearsal that he fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he said, picking himself up with a lordly air, "are expressly designed as a conspiracy to get rid of conductors." Or the time Fritz Reiner congratulated him on "a delightful evening spent with Mozart and Beecham." "Why," came the reply, "drag in Mozart?" Or the time he was visiting as an honored guest in Mexico City and was asked his opinion of the regular conductor of the Mexico City Opera. "You know what we do with...
...credo: "Improve the standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" Beecham was sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially because he approached his music with a relaxed urbanity foreign to such great, tyrannical contemporaries as Toscanini or Reiner. Despite the ferocity of his public utterances, he handled his orchestras with velvet irony. "We can not expect you to follow us all the time," he would say to an offending player, "but if you would have the kindness to keep in touch with us occasionally...
Conductor Michael Senturia '58, maintained a brisk and active pace throughout (certain of his tempi, particularly in the first movement, approached those of the demonic Fritz Reiner). If the symphony as a whole seemed to lack a unity of dramatic conception--only the final allegro was convincingly cohesive--individual sections of it were performed with real distinction. The faultless intonation of the orchestra's winds (the first desk flute and clarinet merit special attention), the resounding firmness of the brasses--all these are easily the equal of almost any professional orchestra. The strings were perhaps too eager to glow wtih...