Eric Kisch wrote: >In one part, IIRC, he cites the critic/philosopher Adorno as saying >that an artist (composer?) is responsible for the uses to which his >art/music is put, even after his death. That's one messed up notion. I don't even think that an artist has this responsibility while alive. Artists and all others are responsible for what they do, not what others do with their creations. It is increasingly politically correct to attach "blame" to other than the "primary" responsible parties. School children kill and everyone looks elsewhere to attach blame; a nut shoots down a family and blames a tv show. Something has gone drastically wrong. Everyone is getting on the "don't blame me for what I did" bandwagon. Perhaps someday Hitler will be seen as a misunderstood guy who was raised poorly even though the "warning signs" were evident. Then, he fixated on Wagner who wrote just the kind of music that would propel a misunderstood man into genocide. It's all Wagner's fault - didn't he know that someone would do this? Don Satz [log in to unmask]