Gale Andrews writes:

>In a liberal and pluralistic society (and we endeavour, not always
>successfully, to maintain this in Israel) there must be a very, very very
>good reason to enforce a cultural boycott

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.  Out of decency and respect to the
survivors the boycott should be enforced until they are all gone.  And
after that does in fact occur, it is unfortunate indeed, that confrontation
with what some humans were stirred into doing with this particular music in
their minds had done.

Norman Schwartz [log in to unmask]