Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet

Notes

Notes Abbreviations ARG American Record Guide CA Chicago American CCT Cincinnati Commercial Tribune CDN Chicago Daily News CE Cincinnati Enquirer CHS Cincinnati Historical Society CP Cincinnati Post CS-T Chicago Sun-Times CT Chicago Tribune CtiSO Arch Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Archives CT-S Cincinnati Times-Star CU Butler Library, Special Collections, Columbia University DLC Library of Congress MA Musical America MC Musical Courier MOA Metropolitan Opera Archives NN New York Public Library for the Performing Arts NU Deering Library, Northwestern University NYH-T New York Herald-Tribune NYPA New York Philharmonic Archives NYT New York Times PBI Pittsburgh Bulletin Index PEB Philadelphia Evening Bulletin PI Philadelphia Inquirer PP Pittsburgh Press PP-G Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PS-T Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph SFPALM San Francisco Peforming Arts Library and Museum SR Saturday Review Chapter 1: The Man and the Musician 1. Humphrey, Eye for Music, 51. 2. Galkin, History of Orchestral Conducting, 753; Wright, “Great Conductors,” 61. 3. Antheil, Bad Boy of Music, 351. 12.notes.231-270/Morgan 7/12/05 10:42 AM Page 231 4. Daniels, Conversations with Menuhin, 91. 5. Quoted in Ewen, Living Musicians, 293. 6. Kozma, “Ave Atque Vale,” 11. 7. Quoted in PEB, Oct. 5, 1927. 8. Dettmer, “Fritz Reiner,” 63; Eugene Weintraub to Olin Downes, June 19, 1944, and Erno Balogh to Reiner, Oct. 12, 1960, Reiner Collection, files for 1943–45 and 1959, NU. 9. Page and Page, eds., Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson, 206. 10. Isaac Stern in Papp, “Reiner.” 11. Bernstein, Findings, 200. 12. David Diamond, interview with the author. 13. János Starker, interview with the author. 14. See chapter 8 for details of these awards. 15. Merrill with Dody, Once More from the Beginning, 166; Rubinstein, My Many Years, 486. 16. NYH-T, Nov. 24, 1963. 17. Max Rudolf, interview with the author. 18. CDN, Nov. 23, 1963. 19. George Gaber and Robert Mayer, interviews with the author. 20. Quoted in Gould, “Artist’s Life,” 21. 21. Philip Farkas, interview with the author. 22. CT, Feb. 16–22, 1957. 23. John Pfeiffer, interview with the author. 24. Speech by Paul Henry Lang at a meeting of the American Hungarian Studies Foundation , Apr. 29, 1964, Reiner Collection, loose files, NU. 25. Ewen, Musicians since 1900, 672. 26. Max Rudolf, interview with the author; “Interview between Edward Downes and Fritz Reiner,” radio broadcast, n.d. (the audiocassette has no date, but the interview probably occurred during the intermission of a Metropolitan Opera broadcast in the early 1960s); New York Post Home News, Dec. 8, 1948, Fritz Reiner scrapbooks (1948–57), NN (quotation). 27. Potter, “Fritz Reiner,” 13–14, 16–17; Hart, Fritz Reiner, 19–20. 28. “Reiner Centenary Scrapbook,” 16; PEB, Sept. 12, 1927; Hart, Fritz Reiner, 20–21. 29. Tuśy to Reiner, Apr. 5, Dec. 12, 1929; Tuśy to Carlotta Reiner, Apr. 19, 1958; Carlotta Reiner to Eva Bartenstein, Mar. 9, 1962, and to Tuśy, Nov. 6, 1962; Reiner to S. E. Bremer, May 7, 1946, and to Tuśy, Nov. 15, 1947; all in Reiner Collection, files for 1945–46, 1947, 1962, loose files, NU; “Reiner Centenary Scrapbook,” 14. 30. “Reiner Centenary Scrapbook,” 14. 31. CP, June 30, 1922; Philadelphia Public Ledger, Nov. 22, 1929; Roger Dettmer, interview with the author. 32. Eva Bartenstein, interview with the author. 33. Roger Dettmer, interview with the author. 34. CP, June 30, 1922; MC 91.9 (Aug. 27, 1925): 5. 35. Eva Bartenstein, interview with the author. 36. CE, Jan. 21, 1930; Philadelphia Bulletin, Jan. 21, 1930. 37. Goldovsky, My Road to Opera, 153. 38. Dana S. Hawthorne to Rev. Ralph S. Thom, Jan. 25, 1945, Reiner Collection, file for 1943–45, NU. 39. Max Rudolf, interview with the author. Berta’s death was announced in the NYT, Aug. 8, 1951. 40. PP, Sept. 23, 1938, Mar. 28, 1939; Roger Dettmer, interview with the author; Philadelphia Bulletin, Aug. 28, 1931. 41. Helmbrecht, “Carlotta Reiner,” 28–30; PP, Sept. 23, 1938; Philadelphia Bulletin, Aug. 28, 1931; CT, Mar. 1, 1955; Roger Dettmer, interview with the author. The Theater section of NN has plenty of information on the Stuart Walker Company plus photographs of Carlotta Reiner as an actress. 232 | notes to pages 2–7 12.notes.231-270/Morgan 7/12/05 10:42 AM Page 232 42. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Oct. 25, 1936; NYT, Nov. 16, 1963; Sablosky, “Trial and Triumph of Fritz Reiner,” 30; The Podium...