Word: henschel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Roughness Here." Each conductor, beginning with German Georg Henschel in 1881, had added something to the Boston's sheen. From 1884 to 1889 and from 1898 to 1906, the Vienna Opera's bearded Wilhelm Gericke, as Founder Higginson wrote, "gave to the orchestra its excellent habits and ideals." It was he, said Higginson, who "taught those violins to sing as violins sing in Vienna alone." Europe's greatest conductor, fiery Hungarian Artur Nikisch (1889-93) taught it how to "poetize," and perhaps he taught too well; at a rehearsal in 1904 Guest Conductor Richard Strauss growled...
...such (the Ju-Sg and Focke-Wulf Kurier were militarized transports). Its most distinctive feature: it has only two propellers, with two liquid-cooled (1,200-h.p.) engines geared to each propeller. The 177 is larger than the Flying Fortress, is almost as fast (about 300 m.p.h.). The Henschel-129, a twin-engined attack plane, is the Germans' answer to the Russian Stormovik. The 129 has a speed of 275 m.p.h., can carry 770 Ib. of bombs, carries a 37-mm. cannon and two machine guns when flying against tanks, two 20-mm. cannon and two machine guns...
Higginson hired his first conductor, Sir George Henschel, when the latter conducted his own Concert Overture for the Harvard Musical Association concert. He then rounded up sixty of the best orchestra musicians he could find, hired himself a hall, and set to work. The conductor and musicians were trouble enough, but it was the hall that caused the real headache. It seems that in renting it out to the Orchestra, the owners had neglected to inform the hall's former occupants of the change. Since these former occupants were prize-fighters who used the balconies for workouts, and were...