Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashionable for more than two centuries, but the trails have changed with the years. The gourmet trail has been blazed from snails (Paris) to schnitzel (Vienna) to cheese (Gruyére). Health was pursued at the healing waters of Spa, Belgium, and Baden-Baden, Germany. Art was tracked from Amsterdam to Florence to Athens. A temperance tour arranged by young Thomas Cook (from Leicester to Loughborough) in 1841 was followed by many a wine-tasting round (the Loire and the Palatinate). But until recently, music was the main attraction only at such famed centers as Bayreuth and Salzburg. Today...
Early this year it was announced that the Evangelicals would not be represented at the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches in August (as they had been at the Amsterdam Assembly in 1948). In a letter to the Christian Century, Evangelical Moderator Hadjiantoniou last week explained why. "We are facing just now a real state of persecution on the .part of the Greek Orthodox Church," wrote Hadjiantoniou. "What makes the situation still more sad and perplexing is that the initiative in this has been taken, in part at least, by people closely connected with the ecumenical movement, such...
Most significant sign of all, perhaps, is the postwar surge toward unity among the Protestant and Orthodox churches. At Amsterdam, in 1948, came the greatest gathering of Protestantism since the Reformation, and there, in a historic decision by representatives of 147 communions, the World Council of Churches was formed. This summer the World Council will meet again for its second Assembly in Evanston, Ill.-1,500 delegates and observers from 161 communions and 48 countries...
...pianists living today. Last month, after listening to him in a program of Beethoven, including the difficult 55-minute "Diabelli" Variations, the London Times granted him the full range of pianistic talents: "Demoniac violence . . . ethereal cantabile . . . the phenomenal technique of a virtuoso and the vision of a seer." Amsterdam's Het Parool called his playing "sublime ... an overwhelming experience...
...giving him a useful chance "to sniff the air, feel around," for he will be bringing the 100-man Concertgebouw Orchestra to the U.S. next fall for a 42-concert tour. Van Beinum is eager to get started, and hopes that his men will learn to enjoy barnstorming. "In Amsterdam," he explains, "the musician who lives farthest from the hall is just 15 minutes away on a bicycle. Once every three weeks we go to The Hague for a concert -a 43-minute trip." And he laughs: "The next day, the orchestra is very tired...