Word: hetzel
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Eighty-one musicians chosen from the theatres and cinema houses of Washington took the stage of Poll's Theatre, Washington, last week. It was the first concert of the Washington Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Kurt J. Hetzel, promised since early last summer to the only city of its size and development not possessing a permanent, flourishing orchestra. Conductor Hetzel, tall, slender, dynamic, had had his men together for only five ensemble rehearsals. Nevertheless they played creditably, excellently, an exacting if not unhackneyed program, which included Liszt's "Les Preludes," Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the Tannhauser Overture...
...Kurt Hetzel was formerly conductor of the Holttheater at Mannheim, of the Stadttheater of Strassburg. He was two years at the Royal Opera House at Munich, three years at the German Opera House at Czernowitz, Roumania. He has lived in Washington for less than a year...