"his wife's face reminded him of the clock face of a Dutch clock. As with many music hall songs, the lyrics dealt with poverty and gender differences. When introducing the song, Chevalier would enter dressed as an elderly Cockney man with his elderly partner. They would head towards a workhouse, whereupon the porter would separate them under the sexual segregation rules. Chevalier's character would cry out in refusal, ""you can't do this to us; we've been together for forty years!"" The porter and woman then exited the stage, and Chevalier would begin the song. Henry Chance Newton described the song"
"My Old Dutch (song) ""My Old Dutch"" is an 1892 music hall and vaudeville song performed by Albert Chevalier. The lyrics were written by Chevalier, with music composed by his brother Auguste under the name Charles Ingle. Described as one of Chevalier's most popular works, the song was possibly written as a tribute to Chevalier's wife Florrie. The song's title refers to an 1880s colloquialism for a partner or friend. The phrase has a number of etymologies; two Cockney rhyming slang explanations identify the phrase as coming from ""dutch plate"" (""mate"") or ""Duchess of Fife"" (""wife""). Chevalier, however, claimed that"
"De oude muzikant ""De oude muzikant"" (""The old musician"") was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973, performed in Dutch by Ben Cramer. The song is a ballad, with Cramer describing the titular ""old musician"", who lives in Paris. He explains that the character had once been famous and wealthy, but that he is now reduced to the life of an anonymous street musician - with even his friends deserting him. Cramer also recorded the song in English (as ""The Old Street Musician""), French (""Pour être vraiment sincère"") and German (""Der alte Musikant""). The song was performed thirteenth"
"movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) in the Dutch version. Bill van Dijk Willem Edsger (Bill) van Dijk (born 22 December 1947 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch singer and musical performer. He is best known for his rendition of the ""Wilhelmus"" (the national anthem of the Netherlands), which he performed on countless occasions in football stadiums. Moreover, Van Dijk worked on various musical productions. In 1982, he represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest. His song, ""Jij en ik"", written by Dick Bakker (music), Liselore Gerritsen (lyrics) and Peter Schön (musical arrangement), failed to make an impression"
"on the night, following Sweden's Nova with ""You're Summer"" and preceding Ireland's Maxi with ""Do I Dream"". At the close of voting, it had received 69 points, placing 14th in a field of 17. It was succeeded as Dutch representative at the 1974 Contest by Mouth & MacNeal with ""I See A Star"". De oude muzikant ""De oude muzikant"" (""The old musician"") was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973, performed in Dutch by Ben Cramer. The song is a ballad, with Cramer describing the titular ""old musician"", who lives in Paris. He explains that the character had"
"prestigious guest list at their stop in Dublin and later that evening by composer Bond Andrews. Ingle later commented that Andrew's use of the name (and the fictitious ""Lady Ingle"") made the pseudonym pass ""bona fide"" to that evening's guests. He did, however, comment that the ""haunting fear of untimely discovery made [him] vow never to pose as a knight again"". Ingle composed music for many of his brother's comedic music hall songs, including ""Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road"" (1891) and ""My Old Dutch"" (1892). As well as managing and composing for his brother, Ingle performed"
"celebrated song, ""My Old Dutch"" (1892). The title is a Cockney colloquialism for a partner or friend—or, in this case, wife. ""My Old Dutch"" is considered the most important film in which American film star Florence Turner worked while heading her own independent film company in England. The film was produced by Turner Films and financed by the Ideal Film Company, Britain's largest distributor of motion pictures. Ideal commissioned the film to showcase the revered music hall comedian, singer and actor Albert Chevalier, whose 1892 song ""My Old Dutch"" was internationally renowned. Turner received second billing, but she received the"
"Dutch Uncle (play) Dutch Uncle is a play by Simon Gray set in a ""living room in a decaying house in Shepherd's Bush"" in 1952. It features Mr Godboy, whose obsession with the police leads him to go to elaborate lengths to get the attention of the charismatic Inspector Hawkins. Mr Godboy has bought an enormous wardrobe. He is contractually obliged to provide a wardrobe for his upstairs tenants, Eric and Doris Hoyden, he says, but at present it stands in the living room, much to his wife May's annoyance. Godboy and May are in their fifties but have only"
"Bill van Dijk Willem Edsger (Bill) van Dijk (born 22 December 1947 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch singer and musical performer. He is best known for his rendition of the ""Wilhelmus"" (the national anthem of the Netherlands), which he performed on countless occasions in football stadiums. Moreover, Van Dijk worked on various musical productions. In 1982, he represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest. His song, ""Jij en ik"", written by Dick Bakker (music), Liselore Gerritsen (lyrics) and Peter Schön (musical arrangement), failed to make an impression in Harrogate: it finished 16th with only 8 points. He performed voices"
"My Old Dutch (1915 film) My Old Dutch is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Albert Chevalier and Florence Turner. A film version of Chevalier's internationally renowned song, it was seen by millions in Great Britain during the First World War and was also a success in the United States. Described as ""an unashamed tear-jerker"" by film writer Clive Hirschhorn, ""My Old Dutch"" is the story of a devoted marriage over 40 years—from the couple's meeting until their rescue from a gender-segregated workhouse in their old age. The screenplay was inspired by Albert Chevalier's"
"the collection of the Lakenhal Museum, Leiden, in the Netherlands. The scene plays on the Dutch idiom ""selling someone glasses"" meaning to deceive them. An x-ray shows that the panel was previously used for a painting of a female nude. ""Three Singers"" depicts a man and his elderly parents, singing in candlelight. It refers to various Dutch proverbs which contrast the strong voices of young people with those of the elderly, which are more unsteady. The work is in the private Leiden Collection of New York, United States. It was previously owned by Baron Willem van Dedem, who had it"
"Willem Duyn Wilhelmus Jacobus Duyn (31 March 1937 – 4 December 2004) was a Dutch singer, actor and entertainer. Under the stage name Big Mouth he was one of the members of the Dutch music group Mouth & MacNeal. During the 1960s Duyn was a popular musician; he had performed in many Dutch bands such as ""Whiskers"" and the ""Jay-Jays"". He was also active as a Club DJ at various Dutch nightclubs. In 1971 music producer Hans van Hemert invited Duyn to join his new music group Mouth & MacNeal, together with Maggie MacNeal. In 1972 they had their biggest"
"he worked primarily in the visual arts known as figurative-expressionist from the 1960s. His work is being translated to english on collected works. Well known is his line """""""" from the poem """" (""The very old one sings""). The adjective ""weerloos"" means ""defenseless"", ""unable to defend oneself"", so the meaning is ""All things of value are defenseless"". This line was put on top of the office building of an insurance company in Rotterdam (near the Blaak station) in neon letters, including his name, sometime in the 1980s or earlier. It wasn't the first but is certainly the most prominent commercial"
"in his song ""Amsterdam"". Errol Garner recorded the live Album The Amsterdam Concert in the venue in November 1964. Concertgebouw The Royal Concertgebouw (, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term ""concertgebouw"" literally translates into English as ""concert building"". On 11 April 2013, on occasion of the building's 125th anniversary, Queen Beatrix bestowed the Royal Title ""Koninklijk"" upon the building, as she did previously (in 1988) to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Because of its highly regarded acoustics, the Concertgebouw is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, along with places such as Boston's"
"My Old Dutch (1934 film) My Old Dutch is a 1934 British drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Michael Hogan and Florrie Forde. The film portrays the lives of Londoners during the First World War. The film was made at Islington Studios by Gainsborough Pictures. The film's sets were designed by Peter Proud. Bryan Edgar Wallace contributed to the screenplay. This film tracks the highlights of a cockney couple's son as he marries a rich man's disowned daughter and dies in the RFC. It is also based on Albert Chevalier's famous song and was"
"Jan Mesdag Jan Mesdag (Rotterdam, Netherlands, December 9, 1953 — December 4, 1988) was a Dutch singer and cabaret artist. Mesdag, who was born Jan Henry de Vey Mestdagh, was a sensation in the Dutch cabaret scene of the 1980s due to his fine singing voice, acting, violin-playing and magic skills. After completing gymnasium in Rotterdam, Mesdag moved in 1974 to Utrecht. There, he studied music for a year. He noticed he was favoring practice over theory. For that reason, he decided to study classical voice for the next two years at the Utrecht conservatory. In 1977 he was accepted"
"Guus Meeuwis Gustaaf Stephanus Modestus ""Guus"" Meeuwis (born 23 March 1972) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. As part of the band Vagant, he scored several hits in the Netherlands and Flanders during the '90s and first decade of the 2000s. On 24 May 2015 Meeuwis was the first Dutch language performing artist ever to play a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. Guus Meeuwis was born at a monastery in Mariahout, a small village in the municipality of Laarbeek where his parents were living temporarily. He attended Stella Maris College, and went on to study jurisprudence in Tilburg. It"
"Guus Meeuwis Gustaaf Stephanus Modestus ""Guus"" Meeuwis (born 23 March 1972) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. As part of the band Vagant, he scored several hits in the Netherlands and Flanders during the '90s and first decade of the 2000s. On 24 May 2015 Meeuwis was the first Dutch language performing artist ever to play a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. Guus Meeuwis was born at a monastery in Mariahout, a small village in the municipality of Laarbeek where his parents were living temporarily. He attended Stella Maris College, and went on to study jurisprudence in Tilburg. It"
"The Dutchman ""The Dutchman"" is a song written by Michael Peter Smith in 1968 and popularized by Steve Goodman. At the time Smith wrote the song, he had never visited the Netherlands. The song is about an elderly couple living in Amsterdam, Margaret and the title character. The unnamed Dutchman is senile, and Margaret cares for him with a sadness over what has happened to him over the years. It is a story of unconditional love. While Goodman's cover version of ""The Dutchman"" is one of the best known, along with a cover by Irish artists Liam Clancy and Tommy"
"Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. The semifinal took place between 24 and 25 May. Niek van Oosterum of the Netherlands won the contest. The Musikverein (also known as the """"Wiener Musikverein"""") a concert hall in Vienna, Austria, was the host venue for the 1990 edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians. It is the home to the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. The ""Great Hall"" ("""") due to its highly regarded acoustics is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, along with Berlin's Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Boston's Symphony Hall. None of these halls"
"Rudi Carrell Rudi Carrell (19 December 1934 – 7 July 2006), born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar, was a Dutch entertainer, born in Alkmaar. Along with famous entertainers such as Johannes Heesters and Linda de Mol, Carrell was one of the most successful Dutch personalities active in Germany. He worked as a television entertainer and hosted his own show. The ""Rudi Carrell Show"" ran first in the Netherlands, then in Germany for many years. Carrell was also a singer with a number of hits, and acted in several movies. He represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 singing ""Wat een"
"Johannes Heesters Johan Marius Nicolaas ""Johannes"" Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011) was a Dutch-born actor of stage, television and film as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage, with a career dating back to 1921. Active almost exclusively in the German-speaking world from the mid-1930s, he was a controversial figure for his actions during the Second World War and his success in Nazi Germany. Heesters worked as an actor until his death and was one of the oldest performing stage performers in history. Heesters was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, the youngest"
"his Six Fat Dutchmen were inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame. Six Fat Dutchmen The Six Fat Dutchmen was a polka band formed around 1932 by Harold Loeffelmacher in New Ulm, Minnesota. The band was known mostly for playing the ""Oom-pah"" style of polka music that originated from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia. They were regular performers at the then-famous George’s Ballroom in New Ulm, and were voted Number One Polka Band for seven years in a row by the National Ballroom Operators Association. Compilations of their music continue to be produced and sold, more than"
"Hall in New York, Bulgaria's National Academy of Music, and Madrid's Muzeum Hudby, as well as with the Santa Fe Symphony. He has also performed at McGill University, Bowdoin College, the University of California, Los Angeles, Smith College, the University of California, Berkeley, Boston's Longy School of Music, the Berklee College of Music, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland. He lives in the Netherlands. Between 1918 and 1927, De Hartmann and Gurdjieff co-composed a repertoire of sacred music, which has remained in circulation; however, de Hartmann's catalog of classical music has been largely overlooked. In 2006,"
"Leo Fuld Lazarus 'Leo' Fuld (Yiddish: לעאָ פֿולד; Rotterdam, October 29, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 10, 1997) was a Dutch singer who specialised in Yiddish songs. Possessing an instantaneously recognizable voice, Fuld recorded throughout Europe and the Americas in many languages, including Yiddish, English, German, French, Hebrew and Dutch. His career after the war once again made his name popular throughout the world, and on the most prestigious night club and concert stages. At 83 he recorded his last record, claimed to be the ""Sergeant Pepper"" of Yiddish music. Leo Fuld was the third of ten children from a poor"
"Concertgebouw The Royal Concertgebouw (, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term ""concertgebouw"" literally translates into English as ""concert building"". On 11 April 2013, on occasion of the building's 125th anniversary, Queen Beatrix bestowed the Royal Title ""Koninklijk"" upon the building, as she did previously (in 1988) to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Because of its highly regarded acoustics, the Concertgebouw is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, along with places such as Boston's Symphony Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. The architect of the building was , who was inspired by the"
"project but cast May McAvoy, not Turner, in the starring role. My Old Dutch (1915 film) My Old Dutch is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Albert Chevalier and Florence Turner. A film version of Chevalier's internationally renowned song, it was seen by millions in Great Britain during the First World War and was also a success in the United States. Described as ""an unashamed tear-jerker"" by film writer Clive Hirschhorn, ""My Old Dutch"" is the story of a devoted marriage over 40 years—from the couple's meeting until their rescue from a gender-segregated workhouse"
"Johann Wilhelm Wilms Johann Wilhelm Wilms (March 30, 1772 (baptized) – July 19, 1847) was a Dutch-German composer, best known for setting the poem ""Wien Neêrlands Bloed"" to music, which served as the Dutch national anthem from 1815 to 1932. Wilms was born in Witzhelden, a small town near Solingen. After receiving lessons from his father and oldest brother in piano and composition, Wilms studied flute on his own. He moved to Amsterdam in 1791 where he played the flute in two orchestras and was soloist in Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos, giving them their Dutch premieres. He also taught"
"recorded at the close of the 20th century. His ""vaderlandische legende"" (""patriotic legend"") for chorus, orchestra and organ, ""De Vliegende Hollander"" (""The Flying Dutchman""), Op. 70 (1874) was described in 1904 as frequently performed, in ""Le guide musical"", reviewing a concert with a performance of the ballad, in The Hague. Richard Hol Richard (or Rijk) Hol (Amsterdam, 23 July 1825 – Utrecht, 14 May 1904) was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as"
"Een speeldoos ""Een speeldoos"" (""A musical box"") was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963, performed in Dutch by Annie Palmen. The song describes the romance between a shepherd and a shepherdess - both of whom are figures on a music box. Palmen explains that, even when the music was played, the duo could not move any closer to each other. After the supernatural intervention of ""a fairy"", the two became a couple. The song was performed second on the night, following the United Kingdom's Ronnie Carroll with ""Say Wonderful Things"" and preceding Germany's Heidi Brühl with ""Marcel""."
"Richard Hol Richard (or Rijk) Hol (Amsterdam, 23 July 1825 – Utrecht, 14 May 1904) was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the more revolutionary music of Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner. Richard Hol followed a course in piano under Jan George Bertelman at the royal conservatory of Amsterdam; after his graduation in 1844 he made a living as piano accompanist. In part on the basis"
"survived by two daughters, five grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Albums Singles Johannes Heesters Johan Marius Nicolaas ""Johannes"" Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011) was a Dutch-born actor of stage, television and film as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage, with a career dating back to 1921. Active almost exclusively in the German-speaking world from the mid-1930s, he was a controversial figure for his actions during the Second World War and his success in Nazi Germany. Heesters worked as an actor until his death and was one of the oldest"
"at the Glastonbury Music Festival in June 2017. Dutch Uncles Dutch Uncles are an English indie pop band from Marple. They are known for their use of atypical time signatures within a pop context, and the androgynous vocals of frontman Duncan Wallis. Their influences include Kate Bush, King Crimson, Steve Reich, XTC, and Talking Heads. Originally from Marple, the band started playing together in college. They became Dutch Uncles in April 2008, and in early 2009 released their self-titled debut album in Germany with Tapete Records, recorded at Cloud Hill Studios in Hamburg. The band returned in 2010 with their"