The Wireless Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, S. Kneale Kelley)
Conducted by Georg Schneevoigt
Sigrid Schneevoigt (Pianoforte)
Tonight's conductor, Georg Schneevoigt, is already quite well known to us, as he is to audiences in almost every city of Europe that has an orchestra or opera house.
Ho was born in Finland in 1872, and studied first at Helsingfors, and then in Sondershausen, Leipzig. Dresden, Brussels and Vienna. He taught in the Conservatoire at Helsingfors, was principal cellist in the Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted the Finnish opera there. He succeeded Weingartner in the direction at Munich. Other posts as conductor were hold at Riga (1912), Helsingfors (the City Orchestra) and Petrograd. For ten years he was chief conductor of the Concert Society in Stockholm, and in 1918 he founded the Philharmonic Orchestra in Christiania (now Oslo). From 1924 to 1926 he was general Musical Director at Düsseldorf, and last year he conducted the famous Los Angeles Orchestra. In the summer months he conducts the concerts at Scheveningen, Holland.