Word: concertgebouw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Eduard Alexander van Beinum, 58, one of the world's outstanding orchestra conductors, who shaped the post-World War II reconstruction of Amsterdam's famed 71-year-old Concertgebouw, transpolar commuter who since 1957 had directed both the Concertgebouw and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of a heart attack; while rehearsing on the podium in Amsterdam...
...enthusiasm of Europeans for American jazz was almost too much for Bandleader Lionel Hampton. Trouble struck during his midnight concert last week in Amsterdam's revered Concertgebouw. TIME Correspondent Israel Schenker cabled this communiqu...
Concert starts calmly, but oldtimers remember September 1953 Hampton concert at Concertgebouw: one boy hysterical; hospital; dancing on stage; wild time. Manager said never again. Too shocking for home of great orchestra once conducted by Willem Mengelberg...
...each side of podium stand Concertgebouw flunkeys, eyes popping. "Heathen cabal," says...
Audience now wildly prancing, dancing, flinging arms, tossing legs, screaming, shrieking. "Stop it," demands hall manager. Handkerchief jabbed into coat pocket, trim, with cold eyes, he strides to center stage, faces band. Holds up arms, band stops. Crowd doesn't-just gets wilder. Boos, whistles, stomps. Is Concertgebouw licked? Ars longa? No! Administrator plunges into corridor...