MUSIC

Two internationally renowned musicians wore Jewish skullcaps during a concert appearance at Austria’s Salzburg Festival on Saturday, in what they said was a protest against Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. American violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and pianist-composer Marc Neikrug made no statement on stage, but told Reuters news service they did not normally wear the religious head coverings while performing. “But we don’t normally perform in a country which has a president who was sufficiently suspect not to be allowed into our country,” said Neikrug, a native of New York. The U.S. Justice Department placed Waldheim on its “watch list” of undesirable persons following allegations by the World Jewish Congress that he was involved in war crimes while serving in the German army from 1942 to 1945.