Talk:Fritz Reiner

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

"Personally abusive"
Juvenile too. Janos Starker, who admired Reiner, said in his autobiography that offstage Reiner would engage in staring contests with his musicians. If the musician looked away first, "you were done for" in his book. 74.90.225.87 (talk) 12:08, 20 February 2014 (UTC) captcrisis

On that point there is a story that one of the members of the Chicago Symphony once brought a telescope to rehearsal. Asked why, he told his mates that he was using it to look for the beat. Reiner evidently heard that comment because when the musician trained his telescope at Reiner, he held up a small piece of paper with the words "You're fired" on it. Zeno Cosini~enwiki (talk) 05:33, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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When was he renamed Fritz?
The real birth name "Reiner Frigyes" is mentioned in small letters before the start, but the main name is shown as "Frederick Martin Reiner", and there is no mention of when the name "Fritz" was first use. Also, he's described only as American whereas he was born in Hungary.

I'd expect the article to start with something like: Fritz Reiner, originally Reiner Frigyes, Westernized as Frederick Martin Reiner, was a Hungarian-born American conductor... 85.64.175.133 (talk) 16:47, 17 April 2023 (UTC)