Word: schneevoigt
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...years ago, when Sibelius' close friend, aged Finnish Conductor Robert Kajanus, died, another prominent Finnish conductor, Georg Schneevoigt, got a chance to rummage in Conductor Kajanus' attic in Helsinki. There he found the missing manuscripts: Lemminkäinen and the Maidens, and Lemminkäinen in Tuonela. Overjoyed, Conductor Schneevoigt got permission to perform them at Finland's 1934 Kalevala Festival. Last week, in an all-Sibelius concert by the NBC Orchestra in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Schneevoigt gave U. S. listeners their first chance to hear the Tuonelese swan's long-lost cronies...
...Angeles, Georg Schneevoigt stepped into the post left vacant by the death of Walter Henry Rothwell for his first concert, Oct. 27. A Finn, 53, he has an enviable European reputation, is known in the U. S. only for a short guest appearance with the Boston Symphony...
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