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Date: | Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:48:02 -0500 |
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Norman M. Schwartz wrote:
>Unfortnately this topic always gets away from MUSIC itself, but surely you
>must understand that witnessing your parents, children or siblings being
>dragged away for slavery, torture, "medical experimentation", starvation
>and death with the tunes of *any* composer, ringing in your head,
>particularly a confirmed anti-Semite, is not going to sit well with any
>normal and sensitive human being.
It's a particularly ghoulish subject, but I've read that the music played
to these atrocities was just as often light operetta music (a la Strauss,
Lehar, etc.) as Wagner.
wm
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