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...baroque Salzburg, long Austria's wealthiest city, G.I.s had a complaint to make last week. Their favorite movie theater, the Army's "Roxy," had been taken from them. For one month it was once more Festspielhaus for the century-old music festival in honor of Native Son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
...Mozart: Salzburg Serenades (Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Edvard Fendler conducting; Vox, 8 sides). The small orchestra, clambering delightfully through divertissements by the youthful Mozart, sounds like a baroque music box. Vox, a new firm recording rarely heard classics, is owned by George Mendelssohn, the composer's great-great-grandson. Performance: good...
Better than Vienna, G.I.s liked Salzburg with its mossy stone and patinaed copper. The Red Cross had moved into the Mirabell Casino, and G.I.s listened to symphony concerts in the Mirabell Castle's gardens.* Then, oblivious to the echoes of Mozart's minuets, they jitterbugged in the old, staid Hotel Pitter, which had suddenly acquired something known as the Sky Haven Garden...
Near by, built directly against the rough mountainside, was the Festspielhaus, through whose cavernous yard had boomed the theatrical damnation of Dr. Faust. The G.I. metamorphosis had turned it into a movie house, nostalgically named the Roxy. And around Salzburg's steep Bierjodelgasse (Beer-Yodel-Street) G.I.s noisily scouted for beer gardens...
Maestro Koussevitzky thinks it no compliment. He bangs an angry, sunburned fist down on his piano. "Why a Salzburg?" he snaps. "Let's have courage to say it. In early stages Salzburg was ideal place-now it is the most commercialized thing you can imagine. Most people who come to Salzburg are snobs who come to say they have been in Salzburg. They must rehearse too quick, in a week, maybe less. Why not a Tanglewood, U.S.A.? We play here something that is more perfect than ever a performance in Salzburg. To make great art great artists have...