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Passau (July 27-Aug. 18) started its "European Weeks" with the hazy purpose of furthering European integration. That purpose was soon neglected, but the festival shows signs of thriving anyway, partially because of Passau's picturesque location at the confluence of the Inn, the Hz and the Danube. This yearns highlights: a performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony by the Bamberg Symphony under Joseph Keilberth; Bruckner's C Major Organ Prelude, played on the cathedral organ; two evenings of ballet danced by the Ljubljana Slovene National Opera and Ballet on the banks of the Danube...
Augsburg (July 30-Aug. 11) has gone Italian. When the city fathers decided four years ago to get in on the festival boom and started looking around for an uncommitted composer, they found to ;heir distress that the supply of Germans iad been exhausted: Ansbach and Leipzig lad Bach; Bonn had Beethoven; Bayreuth had Wagner; Munich had Richard Strauss. Partly because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi...
Dubrovnik (July 1-Aug. 31) is the summer gathering place for Yugoslavia's best singers, dancers and composers. The festival's staple program performed by both visiting and local artists contains such works as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with a sprinkling of more modern works by composers such as Ernest Bloch and Manuel de Falla. A big annual drawing card: a great variety of fine wines from all parts of Yugoslavia...
Santander (Aug. 2-Sept. 2) does not depend so much on tourists as some of the others. Purpose of the festival, say Spanish officials, is to improve the "cultural education" of the local citizens, who fight one another for seats. Scene: the city's 4,000-capacity Plaza Porticada, a onetime bull ring, canvas-roofed for the occasion. Among this year's impressive attractions: the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal Opera Ballet of Stockholm. The Spanish government underwrites the festival's annual deficit of 2,000,000 pesetas (some $60,000), pegs prices...
People who uncontrollably utter obscenities may be more sick than sickening. Doctors have long known (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949) that such compulsive cursing, often accompanied by a violent muscular tic, may precede insanity...