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...lifted Fort Wayne to the occasion was 39-year-old Hans Schwieger (rhymes with eager), a broad and tall German refugee. His 89-piece orchestra of teachers, factory workers, salesmen, engineers, bank clerks and housewives had been eked out with 16 recruits from Chicago's Symphony Orchestra and rehearsed to professional pitch...
...beginning life again in Fort Wayne, Schwieger won the hearts of his earnest, amateur musicians, but he never spared them. Said he: "I keep them on tension. You have to use some psychology. They like me but do you think you get everything in this world by friendliness? No. I say to them: 'I don't care if you love me. Hate me. But play...
...conductor the Perrys got a young German, Hans Schwieger, onetime maestro in Danzig and Berlin. For players, the Perrys wanted chiefly Southerners, but when they failed to find enough, they settled for Northerners and refugees...