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...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
...When Edvard Grieg first heard Amsterdam's Concertgebouw (Concert Hall) Orchestra 50 years ago, he exclaimed: "Never have I listened to a better performance." When Richard Strauss first conducted the orchestra, he was so impressed that he dedicated Ein Heldenleben...
...Russian bloc was still raising its ante elsewhere. Foreign Minister Molotov, who had agreed to an internationalized Trieste at the Big Four meeting, proposed a new ten-point plan that would put Trieste in Tito's vest pocket. Tito's Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj demanded more Italian territory, barked that otherwise Yugoslavs would "fight for their rights." At week's end Molotov declared that, despite the Byrnes speech, Poland would keep its present western frontiers...
Belgrade intellectuals jeer that Tito heads a government of hillbillies, because the new civil service (carefully purged of nonCommunists) includes many a Partisan who can barely read & write. Actually, the Government is well-stocked with Communist theoreticians. Tito's chief adviser is meticulous, humorless Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 36, a former schoolmaster with a Goebbels limp and a Molotov mustache, who spent six years in Yugoslav prisons for writing Communist pamphlets. Later, he fled to Russia where he headed Odessa's Revolutionary School for the Balkans. Currently he writes most of Tito's prolific legislation and heads...
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...