Fritz Reiner: A BiographyThirty years after his death, Fritz Reiner's contribution--as a conductor, as a teacher (of Leonard Bernstein, among others), and as a musician--continues to be reassessed. Music scholar and long-time friend Philip Hart has written the definitive biography of this influential figure. |
Contents
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Orchestra Builder | 25 |
An Expanding Career | 41 |
Teacher | 57 |
Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra | 69 |
Lean Years | 79 |
Pittsburgh Challenge 97 | 100 |
Reiners Music | 189 |
x1v Unfeasible 205 | 206 |
Finale | 221 |
Wills and Trusts | 237 |
Acknowledgments | 245 |
Notes | 249 |
Fritz Reiners Recordings | 275 |
Fritz Reiners Repertory | 291 |
New Directions | 113 |
The Metropolitan Opera | 127 |
The Road to Chicago | 151 |
Chicago Triumph | 169 |
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