Robert Peters: >My quotation of today is one of the most absurd and mean-spirited I >could find. To say what should be perfectly clear: I quote this just to >show how low musicologists can go in their need to serve a dictatorship. Surely you don't mean to imply that musicologists as a class are lower than other professions. >Richard Strauss took Bruno Walters job as president of the Reichsmusikkammer. >He and Furtwangler thought naively they could do some good by staying >in Germany but (volutarily - involuntarily?) served the regime and lied >afterwards about their time under Hitler. The devil is in the detail. Strauss was considered to be detached both by the Nazis and by the opposition. He did have a Jewish daughter-in-law, and apparently his compliance or docility protected her. Bernard Chasan