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Alan Dudley wrote:
>Cool your blood Don! There are many gradations between complete reliance
>on the private sector and public support of music....
And there are many aspects of the state of music under totalitarian
regimes. However odious Hitler's may have been, it still sustained
Strauss, Furtwaengler, Karajan, Boehm, several dozen orchestras, the Berlin
and Vienna operas, and much else. Recordings of that era were excellent
and the radio (there wasn't any TV then) transmitted a lot of classical or
operatic music. Similarly, the Soviet musical scene, sustained in Moscow
and Leningrad ballets that were first-class, while the Odessa conservatory
turned out fiddlers with better preparation for rising to the top than
offered by any other place that comes to my mind. Music has a way of
living a life of its own whatever the ramifications--or at least has
a knack for adjusting.
Denis Fodor Internet:[log in to unmask]
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