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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: Some chauvinism, "As usual," you'd say... posted by Brian Cheney on March 11, 2000 at 07:27:46:
Thanks for the support Big B.On Mengelberg, he didn't really collaborate with the Nazis, because Eduard van Beinum already took over the post of principal conductor before the Germans thought to march to the East, perhaps guided by 'Les Preludes', but Mengelberg of course remained the most powerful man in the Concertgebouw, and Reichscommisar Seys-Inquart wanted to remove all 'jewish elements' from the orchestra and Mengelberg took care those musicians survived the war, but indeed he had to connect his prestige to the Reich and he seemed to have conducted in a Grote Zaal filled with SS, but he needed to survive, as well as the orchestra.
Oskar Schindler was a greater criminal, but he got the Yad Vashem while the Dutch gouvernment, busy killing some Indonesians during the Politional Actions, after the war immediately banned Mengelberg from Holland and a few months before this ban would be released, the 'little general' as the orchestra used to call him, died in his Suiss chalet.
Of course a blanket was thrown over him, to cover up what really went wrong, but he wasn't a collaborator in the narrow sense of the word. He had more guts than our Queen Wilhelmina and her son in law Bernhard who was member of the board in a company known as IG Farben, if that rings a bell......
Everything for the arts, although Willem of course was a little naive.
Rob
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