In Vienna, most conservative of European capitals, there took place, last week, a day of musical uproar, scandal, disorder past all precedent.
At a concert in the afternoon, the Philharmonic Orchestra played, for the first time in the city, Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps. As the famed cacophonies, whipped by the baton of Conductor Franz Schalk, writhed in air, certain staid Viennese, fearing that they were being begammoned, began to shout, hiss, whistle, yell. Conductor Schalk whipped on to the end.
At the State Opera House, in the evening, Erich Korngold, composer, stood up to conduct his opera, Violanta. Composer Korngold and his father,...
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