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...user whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made a proud showing for his U. S. opera début, the opening of the Philadelphia opera season...
Almost from pier to podium popped busy, plump little Conductor Fritz Reiner. He had just stepped off the boat from Italy the day before his first Stadium concert. Gustily he spoke of his summer doings. He had conducted in Milan, Naples, had tried to reduce at Marienbad, had peered about Venice for antiques and lace. With five cameras (two cinema) he and his wife had photographed each other climbing up the Jungfrau, standing in front of Dr. Axel Munthe's San Michele on Capri...
Usually classified as a modernist, Conductor Reiner gave in his first Stadium concert a program mostly classical. However, he told interviewers of an interest in such modern Americans as John Alden Carpenter, Aaron Copland, Roger H. Sessions and George Gershwin, who, he says, is "the only U. S. composer to have a popular following in Europe." And in his fourth concert, Conductor Reiner-who once studied for the Hungarian bar-gave a program composed of the works of four living musicians (Stravinsky, Kodaly, Ravel, Henry Hadley), two dead within the century (Debussy, Goldmark...
...When Reiner leaves the Stadium, in will go Conductor Albert Coates, fresh from his Italian villa on Lake Maggiore. He spent the winter with the Moscow Grand Opera, made gramophone records in England this spring, brings to the U. S. a new Russian work-a suite from music to the comedy The Flea. It will be played at the Stadium along with his own suite from music to The Taming of the Shrew, intended for Max Reinhardt's forthcoming Berlin production...
...insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich to Milan. Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, who had also cancelled La Scala contracts, visited Toscanini and sent off an indignant signed article to the New York Times. But one able conductor, Fritz Reiner, who until this year led the Cincinnati Symphony, amiably complied with vociferous requests and performed the two patriotic airs at a La Scala concert...