Word: wagenaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispatched a flying squad of 50 musclemen, who set upon a gang of nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner flatly rejected Fat Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers...
...with precision and enthusiasm by Conductor Jean Morel, the Juilliard student orchestra began with an eclectic taradiddle called a "Preamble" by Manhattan Composer Bernard Wagenaar, then settled down to serious business: Composer Roger Sessions' Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra. It was the second Sessions premiere in four weeks (TIME, Jan. 30), with a symphony and a Mass still to come this spring. Played brilliantly by Pianist Beveridge Webster, the score, to tradition-attuned listeners, was like being sprayed with salvos of molten metal and broken glass. But the salvos were always tightly under control, and the fragments landed...