Word: hoogstraten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as the winter symphonic season approached its end, boards of directors and impresarios were either doleful or delighted over prospects for 1938-39. Deepest dumps were in Portland, Ore., where the 27-year-old Portland Symphony, in spite of assiduous nursing by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, gave its last concert and disbanded for lack of funds. Loudest whooping came from Manhattan, where NBC officials announced proudly that famed Maestro Toscanini had signed up for another three years of expensive winter symphonic broadcasts...
...Conductor Vladimir Golschmann of St. Louis and Violinist Albert Spalding as soloist, sold 15,000 tickets. Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer announced that $65,000 had been collected toward the $75,000 budget. Adolph Lewisohn, 88, who donated the $225,000 stadium, promised other conductors like Fritz Reiner, Willem Van Hoogstraten, Alexander Smallens, George King Raudenbush. The first week of the eight-week season was to feature Lily Pons singing three arias and Soprano Erica Darbo in an elaborate production of Strauss's Salome. Ambitiously the later repertoire included a telescoped Ring, a possible Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, ballets...
...launched by Conductor Ernest Ansermet. That spry, bearded Swiss gave modern Russian music many a first performance when he played for the old Diaghilev Ballet, has since guest-conducted in Europe and South America. Other Ravinia conductors who passed muster with Mrs. Eckstein were to be Willem van Hoogstraten. Hans Lange, Werner Janssen and three local men- Henry Weber, Rudolph Ganz, Isaac Van Grove. Whatever ghosts of old operatic voices lingered in the Ravinia rafters, Conductor Ansermet drowned them out with Wagner, Stravinsky, Liszt, Berlioz before taking a plane to California to open the agreeable summer concerts of the Hollywood...
...Manhattan, Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi opened the Lewisohn Stadium season with a meticulous rendering of Beethoven's Egmont overture. As usual, old Adolph Lewisohn, who built the Stadium, made a sweet, fumbling speech in which he announced that, besides Iturbi, Willem van Hoogstraten and Eugene Ormandy would lead the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. When Mayor LaGuardia made a speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan...
...conducting, presents them in concerts. The best pupils graduate into the big orchestras, to sit on chairs under great conductors as Leon Barzin's father did, as he was not content to do. This summer came the next step upward in Leon Barzin's career. Willem van Hoogstraten, official conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony in its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, was away on a fortnight's vacation. As guest conductor, Leon Barzin, 32, was called to give five concerts, leading the great orchestra in which he had been top man. One night last week...