Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vocal Fantasy. After taping songs by the Beatles, Purcell, Falla and Weill for Dutch television in Amsterdam, Cathy Berberian made a pilgrimage to London to meet McCartney, who told her he was beginning to dig her kind of songs, too. "I used to think that anyone who was doing anything weird was weird," he explained. "I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all, and it was the people that were saying they were weird that were weird." Berberian apparently had no difficulty in understanding completely. "Whether serious or pop," she said, "all music...
...Amsterdam's renowned, 78-year-old Concertgebouw Orchestra, on the eve of a 1956 performance of the Cherubini Requiem in C Minor, desperately needed a substitute for ailing Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini; it turned to 27year-old Bernard Haitink, an assistant conductor and former second violinist of the Dutch Radio Orchestra, who had led the work not long before. "No," replied Haitink. "I'm not ready, and anyway, I'd like to stay alive." Hotter heads prevailed. Haitink conducted, and the familiar scenario spun to its happy conclusion: he was invited back by the Concertgebouw, soon began...
...brought up in a prosperous, nonmusical Amsterdam family, "drifted" into music as a violin student at nine, admits that most of his conducting has been learned in on-the-job training. Sometimes painfully self-deprecating ("Of course you have ups and downs, but I am a conductor who has too many downs"), he feels he got the Concertgebouw post at his age only as "a credit card for the future...
Indeed, the main reasons for the big summer exodus from America this year are that the new low-fare airline deals for groups (as little as $230 round trip to London) and the go-cheap package tours ($398 for 15 days visiting London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Innsbruck, Venice, Florence, Rome, Lucerne and Paris). Such prices are within the range of almost everyone-from $90-a-week secretaries to $7,500-a-year family men. And already the big international airlines-TWA, Pan Am, BOAC -are booked solid for their 21-day trips throughout July and early August...
Returning to Amsterdam, Kortlandt organized a three-man expedition to Guinea, equipped it with cameras and an experimental tool of his own design: a stuffed leopard animated by a windshield-wiper mechanism that moved its head and tail. Hiding in the bush, Kortlandt's crew waited until a group of about 30 chimps passed nearby and then pulled the mock leopard into view. "Hell broke loose," says Zoologist Jo Van Orshoven, a member of the expedition. "With enormous yelling and hooting they started to attack the leopard in an organized and coordinated...