Word: willem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competent to write music which will be comparable to the text. . . ." In spite of his distrust of and distaste for jazz he admitted there will probably be such themes and variations in his treatment of O'Neill's coalhole drama. San Mateo. Meanwhile towards California sped Willem van Hoogstraten who had conducted with varying success through the first 21 days of the Manhattan Stadium's eight weeks. In the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough he will be the fourth guest conductor of San Mateo's summer series, given under the aegis of California's Fleishhackers, Crockers...
...first season of summer concerts nightly in shady Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park. For 24 concerts tickets sold at $5. Besides Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens, guest maestros will include Karl Krueger (also at the Hollywood Bowl) and Josef Alexander Pasternack. Albert Coates and Willem van Hoogstraten will alternate as conductors between Philadelphia and Manhattan (see below). From Berlin will come Ernst Knoch, famed conductor of Wagnerian music...
...Launcelot" symphony of Albert Coates, conductor of the London Symphony, which will be given its premiere under his baton. Composer Coates, whose one-act opera Samuel Pepys took musical Munich by storm last winter (TIME, Jan. 6), will conduct during the fourth, fifth and sixth weeks; Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten of the Portland (Ore.) Symphony Orchestra, the first three and last two. First-nighters last week flocked to hear, not Wagner, not Strauss, not Tchaikovsky, though their names bulked large as old favorites, but French Maurice Ravel's cumulative, dynamic symphonic sensation, Bolero...
...eludes memory. The device: "Music Writer." The inventor: Dr. Moritz Stoehr, professor of bacteriology at Mount St. Vincent College, N. Y. The principle: same as the typewriter. Dr. Stoehr has labored on his invention for twelve years, earning at last the praise of no less a maestro than Josef Willem Mengelberg...
July 7-Opening of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony summer season; at Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan. Conductors: Willem van Hoogstraten, Albert Coates...