Word: beinum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, in huge Usher Hall, which looks like a railway station, the first of 40 orchestral concerts burst into life under the talented baton of Eduard van Beinum (TIME, April 12). Next night Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra was led by France's silver-haired Charles Münch (Koussevitzky's heir in Boston...
...without troubles. Eighteen Jewish musicians were expelled, and Conductor Mengelberg toasted Hitler, played often for Nazi audiences. Today almost all the expelled musicians are back, and Mengelberg, now 77, is retired in Switzerland. The man who has reconstructed the Concertgebouw is black-haired, 47-year-old Eduard van Beinum, who, after learning under Mengelberg for 17 years, is fast becoming one of Europe's ablest conductors...
...Beinum, a man who likes his Bartók as well as his Bach, doesn't let the famous orchestra show its years in its programming. The Concertgebouw gives contemporary Dutch and U.S. composers frequent hearings; last month, it brought out the first recording of a concert suite from Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (TIME, April...
...Beinum plans to fly the Concertgebouw on its first trip to the U.S. next year. One American who knows a lot about orchestras has already given his verdict on Amsterdam's. Said Leopold Stokowski, after guest-conducting the Concertgebouw last year: "A superb instrument...
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...