Word: beinum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Eduard van Beinum conducts music by Schubert, Bruckner and Richard Strauss...
...almost rhymes with dessert-'n'-how) Orchestra, launching their first U.S. tour. The thought of being in Carnegie Hall, where most of the world's finest orchestras have been heard, awed many of the players. They need not have worried. From the moment Conductor Eduard van Beinum quieted the rustling audience with a masterful glance, it was apparent this would be a concert to remember...
...never seemed cloudy. The concert ended with a performance of Brahms's First Symphony, so magnificently traditional that the composer might have applauded it as enthusiastically as the Carnegie audience did. On its U.S. tour, the Concertgebouw will be led only part of the time by Conductor van Beinum, who succeeded the late Willem Mengelberg as its head in 1946. Half the concerts will be led by Czech-born Rafael Kubelik, 40, who conducted the Chicago Symphony for three stormy years and next fall will become musical director of London's Covent Garden Opera. Before the Concertgebouw leaves...
...Beinum's first concert (of seven) was typical: Haydn's lighthearted Symphony No. 96, Anton Bruckner's somber Symphony No. 7. Each gave the conductor plenty of opportunity to show his capabilities, and his reading of the long, difficult Bruckner work gave the audience some special excitement. Wrote one critic of Van Beinum's style: "Refreshingly free from excessive gesticulations . . . His cues are crisp and clear, his beat firm, and his authority is absolute. His conducting is intensely individual. He knows what he wants, and gets...
...Beinum, who went to the Concertgebouw under famed Willem Mengelberg in 1931, took over the orchestra after the difficult war years and reconstructed it. For several years he also commuted to London's Philharmonic as a principal conductor, but gave that assignment up when the strain of his double-conducting load became too great. The Concertgebouw's regular season is taxing enough: more than 100 programs in eight months. What really bothers Van Beinum, however, is playing festival concerts. "I don't like it," he says. "I play all year. Why have a special festival to play...