Entertainment & Arts
Fritz Reiner (1888-1963), the Hungarian-born conductor who raised the Chicago Symphony to the heights during the last decade of his life with a method compounded equally of skill and intimidation, ranked with Arturo Toscanini and George Szell among the legendary tyrants of the podium.
Feb. 15, 1987
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6. Chicago Symphony conducted by Fritz Reiner.
Nov. 25, 1990
STRAVINSKY: “SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE”; “THE FAIRY’S KISS” (DIVERTIMENTO).
Aug. 2, 1987
The Chicago Symphony will be 100 years old in October.
Aug. 4, 1991
Sascha Gorodnitzki, a former concert pianist who later taught at the Juilliard School of Music for more than 50 years, has died at 81 of a circulatory illness, a spokesman for the school said.
April 9, 1986
TCHAIKOVSKY: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1. RACHMANINOFF: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2.
Bizet: “Carmen.” Jessye Norman, Neil Shicoff, Mirella Freni, Simon Estes.
Nov. 12, 1989
John de Lancie, 80, a virtuoso oboist with the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1946 to 1977 and later director of the Curtis Institute of Music, died May 17 of leukemia at his home in Walnut Creek, Calif.
May 29, 2002
Television
Strikes aren’t funny. But KNBC is.
July 1, 1987
Books
NNNNNNNNNN A Novel Carl Reiner Simon & Schuster: 208 pp., $21
Feb. 4, 2006