Word: hoogstraten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Portland (Ore.) Symphony began its 19th season, its fifth under Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten. This year's program includes ten Monday-evening concerts, five Sunday matinees, five concerts for young people. A special feature will be the presentation during the Christmas season of Handel's Messiah...
...Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra, Eugene Goossens; the St. Louis, Enrique Fernandez Arbos, Bernardino Molinari, George Szell, Eugene Goossens, guest conductors; the San Francisco Symphony, Alfred Hertz, beginning his last season as conductor...
...conducting of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan, 80 minutes before his boat sailed for Europe one night last week. He still had time to make a speech, and said, "It isn't an orchestra. It's a miracle." Knowing ones credited tireless Willem von Hoogstraten, summer director...
Just as the soft strains of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde were floating out over Lewisohn Stadium last week, an airplane swooped low over the city, its roar and honk drowning out Conductor van Hoogstraten's orchestra and Edwin Franko Goldman's able, obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay...
...private pleasure and the public's good, Conductor van Hoogstraten with the aid of Music Critic Lawrence Gilman, has arranged a longer-than-ever list of special features. Old favorites: The Hall Johnson Negro Choir, Anna Duncan, the Denishawns, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in B-flat. Innovations: George Gershwin's "An American in Paris,'' Deems Taylor's "Jurgen," Edward Burlingame Hill's Symphony in B Flat, Ernest Bloch's rhapsody "America" (with 500-voice chorus). Albert Coates of London, as guest conductor during August, has promised his own Scherzo from The Pickwick...