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...audience had never seen Orpheus treated so splendidly. Veteran Salzburg critic Max Graf was not being intentionally sarcastic when he said that Bruno Walter's severe 1932 version "was only greater vocally...
...depth of great art does not exist for one moment in the work of Shostakovich, only the spirit, the colored robe and the sparkling flexibility of virtuosity." - Max Graf, Modern Music...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
...extremely small clique of ambitious, unscrupulous and at the same time foolish, criminally stupid officers hatched a plot to remove me and . . . the staff of the German High Command. The bomb that was placed by Colonel Graf von Stauffenberg exploded two meters [about two yards] away from me on my right side. It wounded very seriously a number of my dear collaborators. One of them has died...
...Executed were: 1) bomb-tossing Colonel Graf Claus von Stauffenberg, member of Hitler's own personal staff since he lost his right arm and eye in Tunisia; 2) Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime Chief of Staff, who fought Hitler's intuition in 1938, had since been in retirement. D.N.B. reported: "He is no longer among living beings...