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...Uproar. Last week this policy was creating a very satisfactory uproar. As ship after ship steamed into New York harbor, immigration authorities seized one distinguished victim after another. There was Friedrich Gulda, a talented 20-year-old Austrian pianist who had come to give a concert in Carnegie Hall (Gulda had been required to join a Nazi youth group at the age of ten). Famed Conductor Victor de Sabata, who conducted at Tanglewood earlier this year and was coming again as guest conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime...
...help came from 62-year-old Hungarian-born Baritone Friedrich Schorr, once the famed Wotan and Hans Sachs of the Metropolitan Opera. Ever since he retired from the Met in 1943, Schorr had been itching to "start a Wagnerian tradition right here." When Halasz gave him the chance last July to go to work on Die Meistersinger, Schorr jumped at it. He had to start from scratch with the almost all-American cast, but that was exactly what he wanted...
...Prize Song. And for once there was a Beckmesser (Baritone Emile Renan) who kept his comedy on the right side of slapstick. Altogether, it was a Meistersinger done with tender wit and the kind of freshness and spirit that brings cheering fans to their feet. Glowed ecstatic Friedrich Schorr, embracing-and being embraced-backstage when the final curtain was down: "Magnificent. I am so proud of my kids...
Formation of a politically and economically unified Europe is the only hope of the West, Friedrich believes. It is only after this is accomplished that it will be advisable to incorporate German manpower into the ranks of a Western defense force. Without Western Germany, Europe is not secure, he said, but German manpower and skills can best be used in fields other than military...
...partial solution to immediate European defense needs, Friedrich joined Bundy in calling for stronger, increased British and United States forces in Germany...