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...hear the best of classical music; last week they got something even better: a Historic Occasion. At curtain time the old Festival Hall was filled with well-fed but expectant listeners, come to hear the world premiere of The Love of Danae, the only unperformed opera by Richard Strauss-a composer only slightly less sacred to Salzburg than Mozart himself...
Danaë had special significance for Salzburgers. Eight years ago, after the Allies had landed in Normandy and Hitler's Reich was girding for its last stand, all theaters were ordered closed and the Salzburg performances canceled. But as a concession to Strauss's great prestige, Goebbels authorized a single "dress rehearsal for technicians," of the composer's new opera. Next day, several members of the cast were handed rifles and drafted into the last-ditch Volkssturm army...
Epoch's End. Answering the thunderous ovation that followed that wartime performance, Strauss himself appeared, choked back his tears and spoke: "With this opera ends an epoch in the European theater of our time. My life is over." He said he hoped Danae would next be produced long after the war, "when people are in the mood again to see an opera about gods and goddesses...
...Summer Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Music by Strauss, Haydn and Stravinsky...
...gives the changeless Bemelmans world its hard-wearing longevity is that it belongs neither to pure fact nor pure fiction. Its borders extend to Palm Beach and Hollywood, but its heartland is Europe-not the Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately...