Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared to the other nations of the world--America included--which are still nursing their war wounds or fretting about resulting economic havoc, Switzerland is heaven. Here pilgrims form all over Europe come for their vacations, run hog-wild through richly-laden patisseries, and return home with a watch and a pair of shoes...
Because of its unique situation, Switzerland is also the musical Mecca of Europe. On one hand are the ex-collaborationists such as Alfred Cortot and Willem Mengelberg, who were chased out of their native countries and took refuge in Switzerland. On the other, there are the already successful artists who would prefer to stay in Switzerland and make less money. The result is a country filled mountain high with the world's greatest musical talent...
While the revival of Salzburg's famous Mozart festival proved to be a pathetic imitation of prewar splendor, Switzerland's Semaines Musicales at Lucerne were entirely successful. The festival depended on atmosphere; two flawless performances of Mozart's Requiem Mass in the same candle-lit cathedral which had formerly resounded to Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. And Lucerne itself, a small town of cobbled streets, hand painted wooden-covered bridges, and a lake on the edge of the alps, is no minor stage setting...
...Switzerland: "Ariadne has become a popular opera at last...
Died. Dr. Ignacy Moscicki, 76, onetime professor of electrochemistry and electrophysics, who in 1926 became President of Poland as a front man for the dictatorship of his longtime friend Marshal Pilsudski; in Versoix, Switzerland. After Pilsudski's death in 1935, Moscicki stayed on as President until the Nazi conquest in 1939 sent him into exile and political retirement...