Word: willems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Willem Mengelberg, 79, who made the Concertgebouw Orchestra one of the world's best, once conducted the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (1921-30), was barred from conducting in The Netherlands for his welcome to the Nazis ("All great musicians were Germans"); in Zuort, Switzerland...
...ride to the royal palace and present credentials. The stocky, mustachioed, gold-laced envoy had hurried from his former post in New Delhi: "Though I come from farthest away," he crowed, "I wanted to be first, and I made it." Hard on his heels trailed The Netherlands' Count Willem van Rechteren Limpurg. Then followed the U.S.'s Stanton Griffis, riding to his audience with Franco in the old horse-drawn coach used by Minister Washington Irving more than a century...
Back of the musicians' disgruntlement lie two older controversies: 1) management's plan to give a pension to wartime Conductor Willem Mengelberg, who played for the Nazis and now lives in exile (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), and 2) the desire of Socialists to take the orchestra out of private hands and put it entirely in the hands of the city. At week's end, although both sides were talking things over, the distinguished old Concertgebouw was still out of business...
...civilian life and would be mobilized only in an emergency. Said Ike pointedly as he left: "Great social gains remain for all of us to attain, but they can only be attained in an atmosphere of security." Dutch officials supposed the observation was directed especially at Socialist Premier Willem Drees, who is more interested in social progress than in rearmament...
...differs sharply from Frankfurter's. It is not the expressionists, Barr maintains, but the abstractionists who have the ball. Among Barr's choices were paintings by Jackson Pollock, who dribbles paint onto his canvases from above to create what Barr calls "an energetic adventure for the eyes," Willem de Kooning, who gets equally helter-skelter results with a brush, and Arshile Gorky...