Word: salzburgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Months of preparation and days of travel will reach their culmination today when the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization officially opens at Castle Leopoldskron in Austria...
...addition to the Harvard roster, professors Walt W. Rostow of Oxford, an economist; Richard Schlatter, of Rutgers, and Elspeth Davies, of Sarah Lawrence, historians; and Margaret Mead, of Columbia, a cultural anthropologist, are on the Salzburg faculty...
...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...