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]