Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of music, ably conducted by Fritz Reiner, consisted of Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, Wechsler's overture As You Like It, Berlioz' Queen Mab, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. This piquantly balanced the well known against the little known...
...Rumanian Fascist! are in existence. They telephoned Professor Reiner-a Jew-that he would be murdered if he attempted to resume his lectures at Bucharest University. They also threatened Jewish students that they would die if they tried to attend the University. Another report says 40,000 students have been enrolled in the Faszia Nationala Humana to join in the "life or death struggle against the Jews...
...Fritz Reiner has closed his first season as Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, with many tunes of praise following him. Mr. Reiner has displayed a full measure of lively talent as an interpreter of music and a director of musicians, and has in addition shown much capacity as a program maker?it takes creative imagination to get up an interesting list of compositions for an evening. Take his last "popular" program, perhaps the most difficult kind to put together. His orchestral pieces were: the overture of The Secret of Suzanne, Ballet Suite from Sylvia, the Nutcracker Suite, the Blue...
...were looking for the greatly sought after "human touch," you would find it not so much in Reiner as in his pleasant wife. Mrs. Reiner is the daughter of the Hungarian soprano, Etelka Gerster. Old timers will remember Etelka Gerster as a young soprano who sang in America for a season, and, with a measureless beauty of voice, appeared to be on the road to the greatest glory. Then?suddenly?she lost her voice and was not heard of again. It appears that she lost her voice during the illness that followed the birth of her daughter, the present...