Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Willem van Hoogstraten

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

That he had conducting gigs with various orchestras is clear.  That he 
recorded with them is another matter.

No one has yet come up with a knowledgeable response to my inquiries about 
his nazi affiliatians.

Steve Smolian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Willem van Hoogstraten


> http://www.proclassics.de/EllyNey/elly-ney-1e.htm
>
> At the bottom of this page there is a photo,which claims he is conducting 
> The London Philharmonic.
>
>                                 Roger
>
> Don Tait <Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx> wrote:   This is an attempted reply to 
> Steve Smolian's message, which I hope will be
> forwarded with this. If it's not correctly done, I ask mercy from all for 
> a
> computer idiot.
>
>  I have looked through Philip Stuart's London Philharmonic discography
> (Greenwood Press, 1997) and do not find van Hoogstraten listed in any 
> index.
>
>  I'd like to know what recording he's thought to have made with the LPO,
> too.
>
>  Don Tait
> It's his conductorial rather than pianistic activities that interest me
> particularly in this context.  A London Phil O record of him conducting
> rather than accompanying would be a pleasant surprise.  But it it is his
> functioning within the various political systems that piques my curiosity.
>
> Steve Smolian
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger and Allison Kulp"
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Willem van Hoogstraten
>
>
> > There are Historic Broadcast CDs,with The NYPO,and Philadelphia
> > Orchestra.The former are readily avaliable online.Somewhere in one of my
> > boxes of 78s I bought off eBay Germany,is a record of one of the Brahms
> > violin sonatas he made for Odeon,that noone seems to list.I have one of
> > the Mozarts on Collosseum,this issue is a 10" LP,from 1961 or '63.Another
> > eBay Germany purchase.If I recall correctly he also recorded with The
> > London Philharmonic.Who was this for ?
> >
> >
> >                                  Roger
> >
> > Steven Smolian  wrote: Willem van Hoogstraten was
> > Mengelberg's assistant at the New York Philharmonic and later performed
> > various duties there through the 1938 season.  He also led the  the
> > Portand (Ore) SO 1925-1938. Apparently he was in Portland during the
> > regular season and at Lewisohn stadium during the summer.  He seems to
> > have returned to Europe after 1938 when the Portland Symphony suspended
> > operations.  During the war he was in Austria in charge of the Mozarteum
> > Orchestra in Salzburg (1939-1945).
> >
> > He was married to the eventually virulently nazi pianist, Elly Ney from
> > 1911 through 1927.  They reunited after the death of her second husband
> > (when was that?), performing and recording together.
> >
> > After WW II he led the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra  (1949-unknown)
> > with whom he recorded for Period.   These and his New York
> > Philharmonic-Western Electric experiemntal records seem to be his only
> > recordings without Elly Ney.
> >
> > His name does not show up tn "Settling Scores", a recent book on
> > denazification of music in Germany and Austria, though hers does.
> >
> > I'm trying to find out about his nazi past.  Did he go along (the 
> > Salzburg
> > job would indicate that, at least) or was he more committed?
> >
> > Many of the post-war Ney/Hoogstrateb records were on Colosseum (E.
> > Germany.)  Did he move into the Soviet sector or could he commute over 
> > the
> > line?
> >
> > Any further info and corrections would be appreciated.
> >
> > Steven Smolian
> >
> >
> >
> > "If you're not on somebody's watchlist,you're not doing your job"
> >
> >                          Dave Von Kleist
> >
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