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...city to which Mozart considered fleeing from his continental misfortunes, the Royal Festival Hall and Covent Garden opera house were booked solid with Mozart music all week. Prague, the only city that applauded Don Giovanni while Mozart was alive, had a Mozart Week. Moscow presented Figaro at the Bolshoi Theater. Even Japan is broadcasting homage on its five radio stations and their networks, while Tokyo department stores display pictures of the composer in Ginza windows...
...incongruity in the joylessness of Muscovites. At the red granite tomb of Lenin and Stalin in Red Square, day after day they queue behind their guides waiting for the moment to file silently past the embalmed Communist leaders, their wax en faces still faintly saturnine. Here, as at the Bolshoi, the Western visitor, brought quickly to the head of the line, may see a man or a woman weeping. He will understand then the real power of Moscow, the new Mecca of the East...
Over the weekend, before the business sessions resumed, there were many attempts to restore cordiality. Adenauer invited all the Russian leaders out to the dacha they had lent him outside Moscow. The Russians gave a special performance of Romeo and Juliet, starring the great ballerina Ulanova, at the Bolshoi Theater. The ballet closes with the elders, Montague and Capulet, clasping hands in reconciliation. In the special box, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer rose and grasped the hands of Premier Bulganin and held them high. The audience burst into applause. Next day there was a festive lunch at which Khrushchev...
...unathletic Molotov blushed as the other guests laughed. But then, ever the practiced diplomat, he remembered the demands of the day, and got happy. Later, Mikoyan danced an Armenian folk dance in the center of a group of singing diplomats and Russians, led by Bolshoi Theater stars. Molotov and Khrushchev sang old Russian folk songs, and First Deputy Premier Kaganovich got so emotional over a song called I Met You that he had to wipe the tears from his eyes...
...What is a married man?" Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev asked an audience in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, and answered himself: "It is a man who wants to raise a family and to settle firmly in a new place." The emphasis was on the words "firmly" and "new place," for the audience was a group of young city men who are being sent east to help turn Siberian wasteland into golden harvest...