Robert Peters: >>>...it is not so easy to give up the attitude of being a better and more >>>noble being just because one loves classical music. Deryk Barker added to Bernard Chasan's counterinstance as follows: >And Rheinhard Heydrich - Hitler's deputy until his 1941 (2?) assassination in >Yugoslavia (which led to the complete destrctuion of the village of Lidice) - >was reputedly a superb violinist. Czechoslovakia, actually, or the Sudetenland as the Nazis chose to call the part of it which Heydrich ruled over (as Gauletier of Bohemia-Moravia). He was assasinated in 1942. The following year, Martinu composed 'Memorial to Lidice' (H296), a funeral ode to commemorate this Nazi reprisal whereby the village was razed and every man executed. The Largo to his Symphony No. 1 (H289) was supposedly his first musical response to the atrocity. Bert B.