Word: kindler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HANS KINDLER...
...Louis (Vladimir Golschmann); Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony of Washington, D.C. (Hans Kindler); Pittsburgh (Fritz Reiner); Rochester (José Iturbi); Indianapolis (Fabien Sevitzky). Of the 18 major-league orchestras only one looked like a war casualty: the Kansas City Philharmonic had lost its conductor, Karl Krueger, to Detroit and had as yet no plans...
...Washington, Tchaikovsky's turbulent Fourth Symphony surged across the water from a WPA-built barge moored near the Potomac River's edge, while 10,000 Washingtonians sat on benches, sprawled on the grass, lolled in canoes on the river. Hans Kindler's National Symphony had begun its "Sunset Symphonies." Other summer openings followed in quick succession: Manhattan's Stadium concerts, an open-air series by the Philharmonic-Symphony; the Cleveland Orchestra's roofed-over summer series, in the huge, airy Public Auditorium; Philadelphia's warm-weather nights of symphonic music in willow-fringed Robin...
Most-played of his orchestral works is the American Festival Overture, written for Koussevitzky in 1939, and based on a boys' street call "wee-awk-ee" (meaning "c'mon over"). This month the Overture is out on a record (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Kindler; Victor). The first major example of Schuman's music on disks, it is a lusty, cleanly written, skin-deep score. No atonalist, William Schuman composes with independent spirit, says of his music, "For better or worse, it sounds the way I want...
...began when comely, iron-whimmed Anne Guerry Perry, wife of husky Lawyer Jim Perry, resolved that Columbia should hear good music, whether or no. She persuaded Conductor Hans Kindler to bring Washington's National Symphony to Columbia, to play with a chorus she had helped get up. She commanded Husband Jim, a onetime footballer who is so tone-deaf that he failed to recognize the march at his own wedding, to find the money. He did his job so well that Columbia's concerts, mostly at $1 top, never lost their backers a penny...