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...from Bach to Rimski-Korsakov and Ravel. He included the Manhattan première of a Sonata by Paul Hindemith, now visiting the U. S. for the first time (TIME, April 19). Nobody wondered that Callimahos should have been appointed the youngest teacher at the Mozarteum Summer-Academy in Salzburg. Even in Debussy's The Little Shepherd and Paganini's Caprice he was perfectly at home. But critics smitten with his precision admitted that Callimahos sometimes played monotonously and often with so little volume as to be almost inaudible...
...building up the audience for his regular symphony series, Rodzinski added opera to his schedule and made his Wagnerian performances famous. People came from 40 cities to hear his Parsifal last April. Last summer he became the first permanent conductor of a U. S. orchestra to lead at the Salzburg festival. There he was received warmly, delighted even fastidious old Arturo Toscanini...
Though he has as yet no Paris salon, Designer Rudolf Lanz of Salzburg has had such an important effect on the design of sports clothes that even the most important Paris houses are experimenting this spring with adaptations of the traditional Lanz Dirndl (tight-bodiced peasant dress) for street wear...
Those who feared that the maestro's great days were over were soon undeceived. In August he set musical Salzburg agog with a heaven-storming performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, a glorious Falstaff, an incomparable Die Meister singer (TIME, Aug. 24). Last December he went to Tel Aviv and, with all his oldtime brilliance, led the new Palestine Symphony through its first performance (TIME, Jan. 4). All of this encouraged U. S. music lovers to hope that the maestro was not lost to them forever...
Sensitive about the long-languishing French & Italian operas, Johnson scoured Europe for a man who could resuscitate them. In Paris he was struck by a fresh, vividly staged Fidelia; in Vienna he applauded a crisp mounting of Tannhauser. Finally in Salzburg he overtook and engaged the man responsible for both: young, sleek-haired Dr. Herbert Graf who was working with Toscanini. In his 33 years Graf has won a doctorate from Vienna University for his thesis Richard Wagner as Stage Director, staged more than 50 operas including Modernist George Antheil's Transatlantic. Known for his direct, challenging technique which...