MUSIC

From the Department of Irony: Controversial Austrian President Kurt Waldheim opened the 66th Salzburg Festival--whose program this year is paying special tribute to those artists, most of whom are Jewish, whose work was banned after the Anschluss , Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938. While the 147 performances at this year’s festival include the traditionally heavy dose of Mozart, they also feature Arnold Schoenberg’s unfinished opera “Moses und Aron” and the play “Wedding” by Elias Cannetti. There will be a premier of a new symphony by composer Ernst Krenek, who left Austria in 1937, and readings of writings by Joseph Roth, Stefan Zweig, Franz Kafka and Franz Werfel.