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Walter Meyer [[log in to unmask]] (and others) replies to me:
>It does not appear however that Karajan ever overtly furthered Nazi
>policies and during WWII, at a time when opportunism would have indicated
>otherwise, he married a non-Aryan (i.e., a woman who was one fourth of
>Jewish descent).
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>His documented cordial relationships w/ Jews and Negroes after WWII
>similarly belied any sympathy w/ Nazi doctrines.
Very good. This is about what I wanted to come fourth to: It is not
so you necesarily was a nazi beacause you were a member of the party.
Has anybody heard about Kurt Steiner? He was a perfect SS man in looking,
he was blonde and even greyeyed, he joined the SS to be able to sabotage
their doings...maybe though an extreme, but anyway my point is you could
live a safer life in an insane society just with formally accepting their
doctrines in public. The same goes for Sjostakovitj and his membership in
the Communist Party...
Kevin Sutton [[log in to unmask]] complains (rightfully) on my language:
>>For "homogenisation" I wan't to say that there used to be other choose of
>>words here; equallization, nivellization...and I percieve it as Mr. Sutton
>>don't use the word "homogenization" as something positive, and I think he
>>actually means that Karajans interpretations are "nivellized", leaves a
>>"smoothen out" performance.
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>Nivellized is a word that I have never heard in 35 years of speaking
>English. Please explain it.
Nivellize = Levelling away distinctions. I hope this explanaition
brings something to my post quoted above. Now you see that in music
Nivellization and Homogenization are something different. And the
difference is important here, as Karajan IMO can homogenize, but NOT
Nivellize. My apologizes to all English speakers.
Mats Norrman
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