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...royal standards, the lord was somewhat unorthodox. As a young man, he met and married a part-Jewish, Austrian-born pianist. Nor was the lord content to live off his rents, for he loved music, and he journeyed about the realm, setting up festivals in Yorkshire, managing the Royal Opera, and organizing the Edinburgh music festival. When he returned home, wife Marion would soothe her lord with her piano music. And so they lived-everyone thought happily-with their three sons in their palatial country house near Leeds...
...Central Park rock-'n'-roll concert featuring Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, a boisterous band of some 150 Negroes wandered down toward midtown Manhattan, heaved trash baskets through the windows of three Fifth Avenue clothing stores and helped themselves. The looters' favorite was a $56 Austrian alpaca sweater, which is a status symbol in Harlem. Among the 23 whom police were able to catch: four Harlem summer antipoverty workers who earn up to $90 a week from the city...
...quarters of the civilized globe do the wheels of bureaucracy grind so exceedingly slow as they do in the former realm of the Habsburgs. Thus it came as no surprise to Austrians that when the state-run Kunsthistorisches Museum recently opened a "new gallery," in a suite in Vienna's old Imperial palace, it turned out to be filled with 120 paintings by 19th century French and German artists. The collection had been taken down shortly after the Anschluss of 1938, and not been on display since. Any other country would have hustled them onto museum walls-if only...
...Mahlerites believe that no other composer speaks to and of our generation better than that short, emotional Austrian Jew who died way back in 1911. Mahler has become part of our way of life. His musical expression was indeed "existentialist," as suggested by Critic Diether. There is also the comment of a friend upon hearing the recording of Mahler's Tenth: "This has been a psychedelic experience." Gustav may even turn out to be a "cure...
...BEAUTIFUL BLUE AND RED DANUBE (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A ride down the storied river for a look at both sides of the Iron Curtain. Austrian Actor Maximilian Schell is the guide. Repeat...