Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Strauss
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 04:27:00 -0400

This seems absolutely fair.
Roger S>

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Kevin Fay (LCA) wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:27:34 -0700
> From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: "'klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] Strauss
>
> R. Strauss' inclusion as the "official" composer of Nazi Germany was not an
> honor he sought. More like accepting the Presidential Medal of Achievement
> here in the U.S. today. To my knowledge, there are no anti-Semitic elements
> in his music; from what I have read, he was certainly not anti-Semitic.
>
> I do feel badly for Strauss--his music almost certainly was used by the
> Nazis against his will. In either event. he was a relatively feeble old man
> at the time.
>
> Perhaps this is a rationalization because I love playing the wind Serenade
> so much. I hope I don't have to change my opinion of Strauss, too.
>
> kjf
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