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Mozart: The Magic Flute (Wilma Lipp and Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Anton Dermota, tenor; Erich Kunz, baritone; Ludwig Weber, bass; chorus of the Society of Friends of Music, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The kind of crack performance, with its own unique Gemütlichkeit, that makes music lovers trek to Salzburg every summer. A new Marriage of Figaro, with the same orchestra and conductor and some of the same cast, offers more of the same happy spirit. Both recordings: excellent...
...Died. Anton Frederik Philips, 77, co-builder with his brother Gerard of Europe's vast Philips electrical products corporation, one of the world's biggest, which makes everything from light bulbs to cinema equipment, employs 80,000 workers in plants in 45 countries; of a heart ailment; in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, which the Philips brothers transformed from a village to an industrial city...
...musicians try to schedule at least one Los Angeles "first" for every concert. This sometimes leads them into fairly deep musical waters (e.g., unfamiliar works by Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Anton von Webern). They do not give a hoot for the critics. The Roof's printed programs run a back-page column of critical comments, listed under two headings, "Figs" and "Thistles." Sample thistles on the back page last week: "Dull Roof Concert Dredges Up Bores" (Los Angeles Times); "Within the seven minutes it takes to perform, [a quartet by Webern] is spare, economical, terse and austere, and seven...
...other man was Anton Marek, senior police inspector and a staunch anti-Nazi, last seen in 1948 entering Soviet occupation headquarters in answer to a telephone summons. Reported Moscow: Marek, now 65, is serving 20 years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...
...Visitors. Adamic had been working for almost three years on a new book, The Eagle and the Roots, in which he pictured Yugoslavia as a democratic nation and a rock sturdily withstanding the tide of Russian Communism. In San Francisco, Yugoslav Correspondent Anton Smole, an old friend of the author, said he was certain that Adamic had been murdered for taking this stand. He also explained why Adamic had slipped away from New Jersey-and why he had quietly gone back...