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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tidy Dutch were checking over the books of Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra. If everything was in order, Conductor Eduard van Beinum's musicians would get their annual subsidy as usual. But this time everything was distinctly not in order: Van Beinum's predecessor, the great Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg, was still down on the books for 10,000 guilders ($3,760) a year, even though he had been sent into musical exile in 1945 for collaborating with the Nazis...
...Have Never Indulged." Dressed as usual in golf togs, Willem Mengelberg leaned on two sticks as he walked along the snow-covered paths around the Roman Catholic chapel he had vowed to build if his chasa was spared in World War I. "I have never indulged in politics," he said. "My art is public property; I am not supposed to withhold it from anyone...
...show to put the protests in perspective: a selection of some 59 paintings most representative of a century (1830-1930) of U.S. painting, set side by side with what contemporary critics had said about the works. The show's title was to the point: "De Gustibus . . ." Double the usual crowds went to the Corcoran...
...first time, the 'tabloid' ballet called "Tiger Lily" stuck out in my mind as being particularly good, but the other night it seemed more like the usual type of jazz-ballet which is part of every Broadway show these days. It is certainly one of the most interesting, and dramatic in its narrative content, but Valerie Bettis, its star dancer, does much better work in the less-spectacular "Haunted Heart" dance...
Appearing at the forum will be Paul Johnson, management consultant and former president of the Waltham Watch Company; Wilson Palmer, vice-president of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation; and Myles L. Mace, associate professor of Business Administration. As usual, a question period will follow the discussion...