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...years, Edinburgh has taken the place of Austria's Salzburg as the music capital of the world...
Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen is a bald, mild-mannered little bachelor who thinks the job of U.S. intellectuals is to "rediscover and rearticulate" the need for Socialism. He spent the last six months of 1947 lecturing on U.S. literature in Salzburg and Prague and writing a book "about some of the things it means to be an American today." But From the Heart of Europe never gets close to that subject. It is one of those embarrassingly naive excursions into politics and world affairs that show the academic critic (Matthiessen is the nation's most assiduous Henry James...
...Song in Salzburg. As his oddly reckless vocabulary shows, the trip must have been a heady one for the footloose professor. Flying to Europe he sat beside "a very burly guy," agreed with him that the Hearstpapers were "lousy" and chatted "with a last shot of Canadian Club under our belts." In Salzburg, he showed that he could be one of the boys by riding through the streets late at night, singing with a truckload of students. And he had "one gay moment" at a beer party when fellow U.S. Lecturer Alfred Kazin led the group in singing the Internationale...
...this gay but canny mood, Edinburgh last week welcomed some 40,000 to its second annual, three-week "wee drap o' music an' drama." Edinburgh had spent $400,000 to outdo even the prewar glamor of Austria's Salzburg...
...wanted to be a concert pianist, but gave up after one school concert. He studied medicine, got his first job in 1929 as house surgeon in London's St. George Hospital. Meanwhile he had taught himself music theory, joined an amateur orchestra for summer tours in Europe. At Salzburg, he once persuaded Bruno Walter to let him sit in his orchestra, to study Walter's ways...