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Across the Alps, Dutch Conductor Willem Mengelberg, permanently barred from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (TiME, Aug. 13) for conducting German orchestras, is living alone near St. Moritz rather than return to face the music. At Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...
Conspicuously missing was Dr. Willem Mengelberg, who during 43 years as the Concertgebouw's director was the undisputed lord of Dutch music. The Netherlands Honor Council of Music had sacked him for joining the Nazi Culture Chamber, making guest appearances with German orchestras...
...Willem Mengelberg, famed Dutch conductor and onetime (1922-30) chief of the New York Philharmonic, whose guest appearances with German symphony orchestras continued comfortably after Nazi occupation of Holland...
Germany. Deacon-like Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler has long been scorned by most musicians because he early made peace with the Nazis. He still conducts the Berlin Philharmonic, which tours occupied nations, has been reported as far afield as Athens. Even more condemned than Furtwangler is Willem Mengelberg, who was with the New York Philharmonic from 1921 to 1929. Red-haired Dutchman Mengelberg has lately conducted all over Germany. Only other internationally known musicians who have been playing in Germany are Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Walter Gieseking. Hulking, butler-like Gieseking has roused suspicions that he is pro-Nazi...
...Herr Strauss himself. On sale last fortnight in Manhattan shops was a new recording of Ein Heldenleben, by Artur Rodzinski and the Cleveland Orchestra (Columbia: 10 sides; $5.50). It was well recorded but not the best ever (most sweeping performance is Victor's 1928 version, by Willem Mengelberg). What made news about Rodzinski's Heldenleben was the program leaflet which did not accompany the records-because it was suppressed. Said the leaflet, written by Musico Nicolas Slonimsky...