David Landau on Fritz Reiner: everything you need to know about badass warrior-conductors
Born in 1888 and raised in Hungary, Fritz Reiner was a man of his time. One could say that Reiner and his fellow conductors treated their music as war by other means. Enjoy!
Those ‘warrior-conductors’ demanded the best possible work from their players, not stopping until they got the sound they knew their players could produce.
