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...range and depth of the Dutch musical gift. Dr. Anthon van der Horst's crack Netherlands Bach Society sang a glowing B Minor Mass. Along with symphonic works of Mozart and Beethoven, the concert crowds heard the music of such modern Dutch composers as Alphons Diepen-brock, Willem Pijper, Cornelis Dopper, Johan Wagenaar...
Last week, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...
...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...
Last week, Amsterdam's councilmen made short work of lopping off the annuity. But to Willem Mengelberg, a senile remnant of musical greatness, it made small difference. Because of Dutch currency restrictions, he had received only about a quarter of his stipend anyway; most of his money came from Swiss investments...
...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...