Norman M. Schwartz wrote: >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. It's a particularly ghoulish subject, but I've read that the music played to these atrocities was just as often light operetta music (a la Strauss, Lehar, etc.) as Wagner. wm