Music: Austria, Germany, Italy

The annual music festival at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, promises to be as fine an affair this year as it was last. The elite of musical Europe and America journey in large numbers to the little old city to attend or participate in festive productions of the works of the finest and most beautiful of all composers.

That Austria, which has passed the last few years in probing the depths of disaster and despair, should work so bravely and well to keep up its musical culture has provoked endless wonderment. The Austrian may be...

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