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...laid a dress suit on the floor of their dressing room and pinned a label to it reading: "Farewell, European Tour-Thanks, Fritz." Then several players trampled across the suit. Reason for the musicians' fury: an announcement made to the orchestra a few minutes earlier by Conductor Fritz Reiner. "For your own good," Reiner told them, he had canceled the "awful tour" planned for the orchestra this summer by ANTA and the State Department. The players responded with hisses and boos...
...probably Cairo, Baalbek, Santander and Warsaw. It was not only the longest European tour ever scheduled for a U.S. orchestra, but also would have been the Chicago Symphony's first overseas tour in its 68-year history. The only trouble with it, argued 7O-year-old Conductor Reiner, was that it would leave the orchestra "miserably worn out" for its regular Chicago season. The explanation did not satisfy the musicians, each of whom will lose, beyond a fine junket, an average $2,000 in extra salary. "It's easy for him to talk," said one orchestra member...
Audiences as well as performers were finally called to order by the batons of great conductors-Sir Thomas Beecham, Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner. Sir Thomas, who began conducting at Covent Garden in 1910, often whirled on the audience to snap: "Shut up!" Once, in a glow of satisfaction, he turned and said: "Not so bad for England...
...place of Ormandy's impressionistic tonal colors and blurred instrumental outlines, Reiner offered a lyrically transparent reading in which every phrase stood out as though etched with scalpel. The tempi were firm as bedrock, the contrasts brilliantly modulated. In both Philadelphia and Carnegie Hall, where he repeated the program, Reiner ticked off the beat with tiny flicks of his baton. To his audiences he revealed sculptured details that many had never heard before...
Praise & Blame. Conductors Ormandy and Reiner are as different in personality as they are in artistic approach. Ormandy maintains a casual attitude toward his men, is quick to praise and slow to blame, has been known to accept suggestions from visiting soloists. Reiner is as tough on visiting artists (a current bitter antagonist: Artur Rubinstein) as on his own men. He rarely forgives an error. When annoyed, he is apt to reduce his always small beat even further, which once prompted a cellist to bring a telescope to rehearsal ("I'm looking for the beat," he explained). "To Reiner...