Word: scheveningen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like about the Germans was their zeal for opera. The Germans started a Dutch opera with native singers and musicians and the Dutch loved it. At war's end, they decided to keep it. Last week, at Holland's third annual music festival in Amsterdam and Scheveningen, music lovers saw the decision magnificently justified. The new Netherlands Opera gave as fine a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice as had been heard in years. The cast got a dozen curtain calls and a standing ovation from happy Am-sterdamers and their visitors. Minister of Arts...
...last symphony concert of the season in the Dutch resort city of Scheveningen. Suddenly, during a Bach violin concerto, Soloist Sam Swaap started scrubbing his fiddle discordantly. Then he stopped cold for a dozen bars, holding his fiddle like a broken toy. After embarrassing moments, Swaap got back on the track. After him on the program came French Pianist Janine Weill. She got midway through the last movement of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 4, then her fingers became riveted to the keys. The orchestra struggled on by itself for 40 bars before Madame Weill fell...
Next morning, the Scheveningen concert was the talk of The Netherlands. Indignant Dutch critics accused Conductor Ignaz Neumark and his 86 state-paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby...
...explanation that Scheveningen's burghers found hard to believe, but they could think of no better...
...church." To the Nazis' annoyance, Dutch churches still pray for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other members of the Royal Family and The Netherlands Government." A typical Calvinist leader is outspoken 71-year-old ex-Premier Hendrikus Colijn, editor of the Standaard. At a mass meeting recently at Scheveningen he said: "Whoever knows anything about our people knows that we will have nothing to do with imported extremism. . . . We have shown the occupying Power that we cannot shed our national characteristics in choosing the political path we wish to follow. . . . Nobody can lift the veil of the future, but those...