Word: reiterating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reiter landed in Manhattan nine years ago, with $40 and a worn brief case containing all that remained of the first 33 years of his life. Watching the parade of jobless conductors on Manhattan's musical 57th Street, he decided that a scrapbook of glowing press notices in foreign languages would get him nowhere. He threw his scrapbook away...
...friend told him that pianos sold faster in Texas than anywhere in the U.S. So chunky Max Reiter hopped a bus for Texas. He had run out of money by the time he hit Waco, Tex. (pop. 56,000), but he had a letter addressed to two sisters who ran a china shop. To them he pleaded: "Just one concert let me give." They helped dig up money and musicians. Four weeks later Max Reiter conducted his first U.S. performance, with a makeshift Waco Symphony. San Antonio heard about it and invited him to form an orchestra there...
Last week, kindly, bustling Max Reiter was back in Manhattan as guest conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra. In eight years in San Antonio, he had turned 40 homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...
...Hollywood stardom and into a quiet Army career eight months before Pearl Harbor, is now head of a Liberator squadron in England, will probably soon be fighting over Europe-the first Hollywood star to engage in regular combat there.*Paul Wittgenstein's piano playing and Max Reiter's conducting will be long remembered in San Antonio musical circles...
Wittgenstein, for whom Maurice Ravel wrote his Concerto for Left Hand, is the world's N01 one-armed pianist. Conductor Reiter fractured his right foot a few days before the concert. While the pianist played left-anded, the conductor conducted left-footed, holding his game foot gingerly aloft...