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...Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization has come a long way since it was first bruited about Cambridge last March, and it has fought that way through obstacles which would have beaten most planners into mute submission. Lack of food, unobtainable military permits, money troubles, and countless smaller difficulties plagued the seminar plan from the start; as they say themselves, those who carried the load sometimes still cannot believe they are here...
...Salzburg was scandalized. The world première of the new opera, Danton's Death, was all set-and then the conductor stomped off after a rehearsal. It was a faint echo, at least, of the hectic days of the Salzburg Festival's patron saint, when Wolfgang Mozart dashed off the overture to Don Giovanni the night before its première in Prague...
This year, for Salzburg's third postwar festival, something new had been added. There was still Mozart nachtmusik by candlelight under the stars, and a performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But the big news was Danton's Death, composed by young (28) Gottfried von Einem, Austria's newest claim to musical fame. Einem had set to music Georg Büchner's 1834 drama of the French Revolution: he was inspired, he said, by the plot on Hitler's life, and the Nürnberg trials. Einem and his father, trying to escape...
...physical troubles after a brain operation years ago (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946); he is still partially paralyzed, and can play the piano only with his left hand. Yet Klemperer conducted a concert in Interlaken two days after walking out of the rehearsal, and he is scheduled to return to Salzburg to conduct a Mahler symphony this week...
...executive group of University students, including administrative secretaries Clemens Heller 2G, and Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48 as well as Kingsley Ervin '46, Levin H. Campbell, III '48, and Kenneth S. Lynn '45, is also in Salzburg...