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Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
>Steve Schwartz wrote:
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>>Probably not. After all, many anti-Semitic composers are played in Israel
>>without such acting out. In fact, if you were to exclude anti-Semitic
>>composers from your listening, you'd have very little left from the 18th
>>and 19th centuries (and probably the first half of the 20th).
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>So what? This issue is not about other anti Semitic composers.. This was
>about Wagner.
I don't understand the arguing here. The issue is about Wagner BECAUSE he
is traditionally an anti-semitic composer, or what?
>The link to the Nazi's and Wagner's descendants support of the Nazi's
>and Nazi nationalism of music is I think the key difference. Obviously
>for many of the Israelis, they feel the same way. They understand this
>distinction and it is neither hypocritical or unreasonable in my opinion.
I don't understand how Wagner could be held responsible for what his
descendants did 50 years later. If you commit a crime, shall we sue your
grand-pa? Besides Winnifred was a Chamberlain and not a Wagner....
>This process is something the Israeli music community and concert
>goers have to sort out themselves.
Sure!....And the nazis thought that there process of finding the final
solution was something that their community had to sort out itself....
Didrik Schiele
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