Word: henschell
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Boston. Most ambitious of the season's programs is that mapped out by the Boston Symphony. The occasion warrants it. Fifty years have passed since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson undertook to provide Bostonians with a permanent orchestra, brought over German George Henschel to take first command. Despite his 80 years, Henschel came back last week to inaugurate the jubilee season with a repetition of his original program. Conductor Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky anticipated the opening with a superb radio concert, planned his actual return for the season's second week. Scheduled for the winter are the premieres of many...
...Fiftieth Anniversary Festival of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will begin this afternoon, when Sir George Henschel lifts his baton. Returning after fifty years to the post which he held in 1880, Sir George, who conducted the first program of the Orchestra, will again lead the musicians, this time in celebration of fifty years of musical life...
This afternoon Sir George Henschel will lift the baton he first raised fifty years ago, and will signal the Boston Symphony Orchestra to begin the same program that they played under his direction at their first concert. To Harvard men the occasion will be the anniversary of a most valuable and delightful aspect of life in Cambridge. There has always been a very close association between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Harvard College...