Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Edvard Grieg first heard Amsterdam's Concertgebouw (Concert Hall) Orchestra 50 years ago, he exclaimed: "Never have I listened to a better performance." When Richard Strauss first conducted the orchestra, he was so impressed that he dedicated Ein Heldenleben...
Beethoven & Refreshments. The Concertgebouw has not always enjoyed stability. It was born privately, like most small-town U.S. orchestras-except that Amsterdam's music-loving burghers built a hall to hear visitors like Brahms and Liszt before they built an orchestra...
Britten: Peter Grimes Excerpts (The Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). Amsterdam's orchestra, possibly Europe's best, puts salt and spray into the four sea interludes and passacaglia from Britten's opera (TIME, Feb. 16). Performance: excellent...
...Berlin, via Amsterdam, with a passport bought from an American sailor. For six months he managed to send a steady stream of dispatches to the Chronicle before the Germans identified and arrested him. After narrowly escaping execution as a spy, Pyke made a bold daylight escape from a prison camp and returned to Britain...
...written an Essay on Despotism; now, living in Amsterdam, he wrote, translated, and, as a member of the Freemasons, planned to make them an instrument of world reform. Arrested again, imprisoned in the gloomy fortress at Vincennes, he was, at 28, ruined, his health destroyed, his mind preserved only by the works he wrote (14 or 15 hours a day) so as to keep from brooding on his plight...