Word: salzburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seefried, sopranos; Anton Dermota, tenor; Erich Kunz, baritone; Ludwig Weber, bass; chorus of the Society of Friends of Music, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The kind of crack performance, with its own unique Gemütlichkeit, that makes music lovers trek to Salzburg every summer. A new Marriage of Figaro, with the same orchestra and conductor and some of the same cast, offers more of the same happy spirit. Both recordings: excellent...
...After a Salzburg recital, at which courteous critics favorably compared her personality with that of France's Mistinguetr but tactfully omitted mention of her voice, oldtime Opera Diva Maria Jeritza, now a mellow 63, arrived in Vienna. Looking forward to hearing her try another comeback next week, enthusiastic fans swarmed the streets; a band serenaded her hotel until she stepped out on the balcony and threw garlands of flowers to the crowd. Her husband, a Newark umbrella manufacturer, was doing his part to help the buildup. He had already given away 10,000 umbrellas to his wife...
Since its foundation in 1842, the Salzburg Festival has always featured Native Son Wolfgang Mozart, although other Austrians and some outsiders, e.g., Beethoven and Wagner, often creep in. One Austrian whose name was never mentioned in the same breath with Salzburg was Atonalist Alban Berg. But this year Berg made...
...Rudolf Bing, a Wozzeck fan, showed up for the general rehearsal. Wrote New York Times Critic Howard Taubman: "It is to be hoped that he will take his courage in his hands and follow in Salzburg's footsteps...
...CRIMSON editor travelling through Austria this summer, Mr. Edelman was obliged to mall this dispatch from Salzburg, since, in four-power occupied Vienna, as he points out, "censors strike out all anti-Soviet remarks in letters...