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...years, Edinburgh has taken the place of Austria's Salzburg as the music capital of the world...
Last week, Edinburgh's second annual festival ended. For three weeks thousands of music lovers had heard the greatest of music, from Bach to Bartok, played by such orchestras as Amsterdam's superb, 65-year-old Concertgebouw and Rome's famed Augusteo. They had heard the Mozart piano concertos, performed unforgettably by their finest living interpreter-Pianist Artur Schnabel. They had seen Mozart's operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutti, given with polish by a company that is fast becoming the best in the business-Britain's Glyndebourne. They had heard superlative choral...
...Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades and dancing in West Princes Street Gardens, below Edinburgh Castle...
Oxnam attended both the Oxford and Edinburgh conferences of 1937 and has been active on the provisional committee for the World Council. Says...
...natty, pug-nosed Englishman named Boyd Neel, 43. With his "little orchestra" of ten violins, four violas, four cellos and three double basses, Neel was producing delicate performances of 18th Century and contemporary music that bigger orchestras couldn't hope to match. He was clearly the hit of Edinburgh's first week...