Word: salzburg
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...long as I live there will be no discussion about a successor." But last week the iron chancellor of the Berlin Philharmonic abruptly ended his distinguished 34-year tenure as conductor-for- life. With a curt, 17-line note to West Berlin's new culture minister Anke Martiny, the Salzburg-born Karajan, 81, severed his often troubled relationship with an orchestra widely regarded as the finest in the world. The reason given was ill health, but to an even greater extent Karajan was bowing to pressure from both his restive orchestra and the West Berlin senate...
...most recent controversy came to a climax last week, when John Paul triumphed over strong local resistance and appointed Georg Eder, a conservative village priest, as Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria. It was the latest act in a long-running drama. Last month the Pope named an equally unpopular conservative as Archbishop of Cologne, West Germany, Europe's richest diocese. In January 1988 the Pontiff shocked the Irish clergy by picking a conservative metaphysician as Dublin's Archbishop. A few months before that, he had installed a longtime Vatican official as Primate of Brazil, where many bishops condone the leftist liberation...
Such was the case in Salzburg. Though formally announced only last week, Eder's appointment had long been anticipated -- and fervently opposed. Eder, who still celebrates Mass with his back to the congregation, blames sex education for promoting a "Communist takeover of our society" and deems AIDS a form of divine punishment. After giving grudging approval to his nomination, the Salzburg cathedral chapter publicly proclaimed its "severe conflict of conscience" about the selection process and criticized the rightward imbalance of the Pope's list...
...game, in April. Levine, 45, has been at the Met practically since puberty and lately has been making valedictory noises; it is no secret that he wishes to expand his European activities and that Herbert von Karajan's twin jobs as head of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival would suit him just fine. The Met, already scrambling for a new general manager, could eventually be shopping for a new music director as well...
...tour also took the Kroks to such cities as London, Paris, the Hague, Monte Carlo, Salzburg, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Lincoln cites as his favorite part of the tour the group's performance before an Austrian princess, who invited them to a party after the show. "It's just hard to believe that we were there dancing with princesses in the middle of the Alps," he says...