Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the recipients: Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter, George Szell, Eduard van Beinum in Amsterdam, Sir Thomas Beecham in London, Pierre's son Jean Monteux in Paris...
Before "the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam . . . I took no part, or only a small part, in the 'ecumenical movement,' indeed had all kinds of criticisms to make of it, since all 'movements' as such have always been and still are somewhat suspect in my eyes. But in this case I must confess, using the words in their ordinary sense, 'My mind has changed...
...rewarding ... to sit down at one table with the representatives of completely different churches ... as at Amsterdam-to sit down not with the purpose of formulating a new dogma or making compromises, but with the modest yet firm purpose of reaching through discussion a clear understanding of the things about which Christendom is united and the things about which it is divided ... So many . . . things at Amsterdam were simply encouraging . . . [that] I am glad that I did not harden myself against this new experience, but kept myself open...
During the past year, Withrop has emerged as a strong force in the politic- ian-breeding field, supplying two out of three Class of 1949 marchals and four out of ten permanent committeemen. Its more internationally-minded members have entertained visiting firemen in quantity from Amsterdam and other faraway places, and rumors of a resident Eskimo, through probably exaggerated, are not entirely unfounded in fact...
...second U.S. tour (she sang Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter last season), Kathleen finds she has little time now for anything but singing. After her U.S. tour there are two other big engagements on her schedule: 1) Amsterdam, where she will sing Orfeo again with San Francisco's Pierre Monteux conducting, 2) the Edinburgh Festival, where her old coach, Bruno Walter, has promised to be at the piano to accompany her recital...