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Browse piano sheets by Sid Reinherz on Zen Virtual Piano. Sid Reinherz was the oldest of two boys, born to a Massachusetts-native father and an immigrant mother from Odessa, Russia. Hot Coffee, a 1919 fox trot with some stop time and a lively rag-like trio, was his first known publication; the ragpiano.com biography calls it an average musical affair. Oh, Danny, Love Your Annie (Like You Learned it Over There) came next, with words by his friend Ray Spencer; the ragpiano.com biography calls it a mildly suggestive postwar song. According to ragpiano.com, he worked his way up to minor celebrity, playing both as a club soloist and with some dance orchestras. In December 1923 he went to the Gennett Records studio in New York, having played in New York a few times before, and recorded two of his own novelty piano works, Mah Jong and The Boston Trot; ragpiano.com says both showed him to be a capable pianist. Starting at WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts, and WGY in Schenectady, New York, in 1924, he and his piano or orchestra soon turned up regularly on Boston stations such as WEEI and on East Coast networks like WOR and WPAP. Two of his own novelty works on disc in 1923 and a piano-or-orchestra act on radio from 1924 may point to a pianist whose name reached listeners through both records and the airwaves. In 1928 and 1929 he managed the Chatham Manor Tea Room in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and was shown as its proprietor, probably keeping a regular venue for his music, though that regular venue appears to have faded as the Great Depression set in. On September 21, 1929, he married the Pennsylvania-born writer Leona Bertram Gosman in Manhattan. He still appeared in radio logs in the early 1930s, mostly on WEEI, and had opened his own piano-teaching studio at 228 Tremont around 1930. A tea room venue that appears to have faded as the Depression set in, against radio-log appearances that continued into the early 1930s, may suggest that broadcasting held up better than the tea room. An advertisement for an August 1933 appearance used hyperbole that shows how highly his playing was regarded in Boston. In the middle and late 1930s he and his Keyboard Rhythm Orchestra continued to play Boston-area clubs and to broadcast on WNBH, WAAB and WBZ. That regard for his playing in 1933, coming a few years after he opened a studio, may suggest that teaching and performing ran side by side for him. Reinherz was 55 when he died in 1956. Since then, his recordings have circulated on select records and digital formats featuring 1920s novelty piano works. Recordings that have circulated on select records, set beside his 1930s work in Boston-area clubs, may suggest that his music travelled beyond the local scene.
Browse piano sheets by Sid Reinherz on Zen Virtual Piano.
Sid Reinherz was the oldest of two boys, born to a Massachusetts-native father and an immigrant mother from Odessa, Russia. Hot Coffee, a 1919 fox trot with some stop time and a lively rag-like trio, was his first known publication; the ragpiano.com biography calls it an average musical affair. Oh, Danny, Love Your Annie (Like You Learned it Over There) came next, with words by his friend Ray Spencer; the ragpiano.com biography calls it a mildly suggestive postwar song.
According to ragpiano.com, he worked his way up to minor celebrity, playing both as a club soloist and with some dance orchestras. In December 1923 he went to the Gennett Records studio in New York, having played in New York a few times before, and recorded two of his own novelty piano works, Mah Jong and The Boston Trot; ragpiano.com says both showed him to be a capable pianist. Starting at WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts, and WGY in Schenectady, New York, in 1924, he and his piano or orchestra soon turned up regularly on Boston stations such as WEEI and on East Coast networks like WOR and WPAP. Two of his own novelty works on disc in 1923 and a piano-or-orchestra act on radio from 1924 may point to a pianist whose name reached listeners through both records and the airwaves.
In 1928 and 1929 he managed the Chatham Manor Tea Room in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and was shown as its proprietor, probably keeping a regular venue for his music, though that regular venue appears to have faded as the Great Depression set in. On September 21, 1929, he married the Pennsylvania-born writer Leona Bertram Gosman in Manhattan. He still appeared in radio logs in the early 1930s, mostly on WEEI, and had opened his own piano-teaching studio at 228 Tremont around 1930. A tea room venue that appears to have faded as the Depression set in, against radio-log appearances that continued into the early 1930s, may suggest that broadcasting held up better than the tea room.
An advertisement for an August 1933 appearance used hyperbole that shows how highly his playing was regarded in Boston. In the middle and late 1930s he and his Keyboard Rhythm Orchestra continued to play Boston-area clubs and to broadcast on WNBH, WAAB and WBZ. That regard for his playing in 1933, coming a few years after he opened a studio, may suggest that teaching and performing ran side by side for him. Reinherz was 55 when he died in 1956. Since then, his recordings have circulated on select records and digital formats featuring 1920s novelty piano works. Recordings that have circulated on select records, set beside his 1930s work in Boston-area clubs, may suggest that his music travelled beyond the local scene.
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Sid Reinherz was a Boston-area pianist, composer of novelty piano pieces and radio bandleader, who died in 1956 at the age of 55.
Hot Coffee is a fox trot published in 1919, his first known publication, with a bit of stop time and a rag-like trio.
At the Gennett Records studio in New York in December 1923 he recorded two of his own novelty piano works, Mah Jong and The Boston Trot.
He was heard on WBZ, WGY, WEEI, WOR, WPAP, WNBH and WAAB across the 1920s and 1930s.