Word: gewandhaus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world fame. By the time he was 60 even the Central Europeans admitted he was good, placed a bust of him in the famous Gewandhaus hall of fame in Leipzig. Even the concert-shy man-in-the-street knew and whistled melodies from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite...
Wagner, Medelsshohn, Greig ? these were the composers played creditably by the new 60-piece Indianapolis Orchestra. Teacher Schaefer proved an authoritative leader, but that surprised no one. Ferdinand Schaefer was weel trained in Germany before he came to the U.S. He was first violinist in the famed Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig, had conducting experience with several Leipzig and Berlin organizations. Almost every summer he goes back to Germany for a visit. He likes his beer and the music made by the small orchestras in every German city. U. S. cities should have just such orchestras, he says...