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When Leopold Stokowski flicked his baton in Philadelphia 20 years ago, he had no player more responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his own commanding stick. He had returned to his oldtime colleagues as an experienced, full-fledged conductor. But he had done more than achieve a conductor's technique. Despite Depression he had succeeded in planting an orchestra in Washington, D. C., making it grow and flower...
...Capital was considered a barren field for music when Kindler went there five years ago. But the affable Dutchman quickly made friends with people who became his sponsors, labored tirelessly over a disjointed body of players who badly needed work. From its feeble beginnings the orchestra has grown fast. First winter there were 87 guarantors. Now there are 1,600. First concerts had programs which were not too difficult to play, easy to digest. Conductor Kindler has waxed bolder as his audiences waxed larger, plans for this season a rich Brahms festival with Pianist Myra Hess...
...Although Cellist-Conductor Hans Kindler has had trouble enough making a go of winter concerts with his four-year-old National Symphony in Washington, he determined to put on a summer season. He persuaded the National Park Service to shoulder one-third of the cost ($35,000). He hurdled union obstacles. From the Navy Department he begged and borrowed a coal barge which was towed up the Potomac, anchored by Arlington Memorial Bridge. On this was built a big grey acoustic shell. One night last week Conductor Kindler and his 80 musicians marched up gangplanks to the barge, played Wagner...
...cellist. Mrs. Hoover attended, applauded vigorously, sent Herr Dr. Kindler a big bunch of yellow chrysanthemums. When Conductor Kindler had learned that Pres ident Hoover would not attend, he had sighed a great sigh of regret. "Ah, me." said he. "The President can always find time to attend the opening of a World Series and throw out the first ball. Tell His Excellency that if he will come to our opening, I will give him a fiddle to throw...
...Last week the National Symphony Orchestra opened its Washington season with a concert at Constitution Hall. Conducting was jolly Hans Kindler, famed...