Word: concertgebouw
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Your Invitation to Music (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Fifteen choruses from Bach's B Minor Mass by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
...crowd flocked to performances of Der Rosenkavalier, were slower to buy up seats for Hindemith's more modern Mathis der Mahler. They cheered for Eduard van Beinum and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra when it played The Rite of Spring and for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's new Reflection, liked Tyrone Guthrie's production of an 18th century ballad opera, The Highland Fair...
...musical world knows Amsterdam for its topflight Concertgebouw Orchestra; Amsterdammers' own musical affections center more mundanely on their pierementen, the oversized (10-ft.-high), richly painted barrel organs that trundle through the city streets from dawn to sundown. They furnish the common man's music: the oompah of his visions, the clanging of his troubles, the tra-la-la of his frolicking loves. Some notable feature of design or decoration gives them distinctive names: "Big Belly," "Buffalo," "Water Jug," "Rug Beater," "Cement Mixer" (for an oversized grinding wheel...
Serious musicians and the president of the Society of Friends of the Concertgebouw were deemed expert enough to judge the power and precision of the grinders, their genius with operatic potpourris, popular marches, sentimental fluff. The judges toured the pierement line in a black-and-yellow carriage, while thousands of Amsterdammers jostled to watch and listen. The first inspection was, for exterior shine; next came a look at the innards. Finally, while the crowds cheered their favorites and mocked at breakdowns, the judges cocked an ear to the music and an eye to grinding technique...
...unassuming little gate: the Symphony in D [K.84] of the 14-year-old Mozart." The guide on this all-Mozart stroll last week was Benjamin Britten, 37, one of Britain's most highly rated composers (Peter Grimes). But the Holland Festival audience in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw was in for a grievous disappointment: not only did Benjy stray off the path; he tromped on the flowers...