Robert Peters:
>My quotation of today is one of the most absurd and mean-spirited I
>could find. To say what should be perfectly clear: I quote this just to
>show how low musicologists can go in their need to serve a dictatorship.
Surely you don't mean to imply that musicologists as a class are lower
than other professions.
>Richard Strauss took Bruno Walters job as president of the Reichsmusikkammer.
>He and Furtwangler thought naively they could do some good by staying
>in Germany but (volutarily - involuntarily?) served the regime and lied
>afterwards about their time under Hitler.
The devil is in the detail. Strauss was considered to be detached both
by the Nazis and by the opposition. He did have a Jewish daughter-in-law,
and apparently his compliance or docility protected her.
Bernard Chasan