Word: reiterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many psychiatrists have a fairly fixed idea that the world is badly bent, and a set conviction that psychiatry can straighten it out. Last week, in Geneva, Danish Psychiatrist P. J. Reiter suggested to the second annual assembly of the World Federation for Mental Health that every top official in all branches of government in all countries "ought to have his head examined." A physical checkup, thought Dr. Reiter, would be a good idea too. Examinations should be conducted by boards composed of a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a sociologist and a physician. Of course, added Dr. Reiter, before ruling...
...years ago, Richard Strauss wrote to his friend, Conductor Max Reiter in San Antonio, that he was dedicating his last years (he is now 84) to "straightening out my house," reworking old compositions that had never satisfied...
...mentioned his ballet The Legend of Joseph, which Impresario Sergei Diaghilev had first produced in Paris and London in 1914. Joseph meant something special to Max Reiter: as a young man he had played the celesta in the Berlin Opera orchestra while Strauss himself conducted it. Reiter demanded the honor of being the first to perform the new version when it was ready...
Last week, Strauss's new Joseph was ready, and Max Reiter's well-drilled San Antonio Symphony Orchestra was ready to play it. Composer Strauss had done more than strain off a potpourri of the original music; he had taken six or seven of his best themes, added some new material, then stirred and blended it all into a symphonic piece, in the tradition of his great Death and Transfiguration (1889). Said Conductor Reiter: "Strauss's music craft is as perfect as ever...
When it was over, San Antonians gave Joseph and Max Reiter their hearty approval. In appreciation of the man who had founded their orchestra (TIME, July 14, 1947) and nursed its musicians on Strauss, they had also given Max Reiter a new five-year contract...