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...Manhattan definite announcement confirmed recent rumor: Conductor Willem Mengelberg will not return next season to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, Jan. 27). In London last week it became known that he had been engaged to conduct the London Symphony in 60 concerts, an ambitious orchestral season for Britishers, inspired by the recent visits of the Berlin and Vienna orchestras under Wilhelm Furtwangler, another onetime New York Philharmonic conductor...
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $10) ?Tchaikovsky dedicated this symphony to Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, the wealthy widow of a railroad engineer, who for years supported him without ever meeting him. Conductor Mengelberg's touch is deft and powerful, far transcends any of his recent performances with Man- Manhattan's Philharmonic...
...Evansville, Ind., Sebastian H. Willem. escaped lunatic, and Gertrude Shrewsbury, dishwasher in the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane, invited 300 loafers to a "bridal" party for which they paid cash...
When informed that her husband had been recaptured under these circumstances, Mrs. Willem professed devotion, said she would try to get him released...
Great was the suspense in a Manhattan concert hall last week. After each burst of applause an expectant silence fell in the audience. Many thought, particularly after the sweeping finale of the Liszt Preludes, that Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left...