European record companies, like Philips are willing to give young countrymen a push. Conductor Edo de Waart first gained recognition in America through some records issued by Philips.

American maestros preside over a vibrant orchestral scene

When the Cleveland Orchestra recently chose a new music director, it reached across the Atlantic to select Christoph von Dohnányi, a German of Hungarian descent who is head of the Hamburg State Opera. It is a familiar story. Once again a major…

The tidy Dutch were checking over the books of Amsterdam’s famed Concertgebouw Orchestra. But it was not in order: conductor and collaborator Mengelberg, was still down for fl.10,00.

The tidy Dutch 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…

During the war Nazis removed 18 Jewish members from Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra. Now 15 of the 18 musicians were back for the symphony’s first concert since liberation.

ive years ago Nazis purged Amsterdam’s world-famed Concertgebouw Orchestra of 18 Jewish members, packed them off to a Czechoslovakian concentration camp. Last week 15 of the 18 Jewish musicians were back in their chairs for the symphony’s first concert since the liberation.

By way of a prelude, Amsterdamers had done…