Techniques of Conducting
Description
This program opens with Fritz Reiner conducting the New York Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, with Jascha Heifetz as soloist; Reiner, whom Isaac Stern characterizes as a brilliant stick technician, is also seen conducting the Chicago Symphony in Beethoven's Seventh. The program also presents Szell in conversation and rehearsing the Cleveland in Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, von Karajan in conversation and performing Debussy's "La Mer," and Bernstein rehearsing Shostakovich's Fifth and performing the Mahler Fourth Symphony.
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35 min
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Date of Publication
[2012], cuuuu
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Films on Demand
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