Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2000/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd:
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 23:26:08 -0400

From: "Fred Jacobowitz" <fbjacobo@-----.com>
T> I just got this in an e-mail and IF it is true (and it sure seems to be)
it is both ludicrous and sobering.

I happened to save an article about this a while back.

"The source of this is a short story by Josef Skorecky, entitled 'I won't
take
back one word', in which he paraphrases these regulations, which he had
originally read in a contemporaneous Czech translation in the film weekly
Filmovy Kuryr. They were apparenty promulgated in 1933 by a local
Gauleiter;
it is quite possible that Skorecky would have used the delicious name
'Baldur
von Blodheim', and changed the 'Gauleiter' to 'Reichsmusikfuehrer', in the
short story (which I haven't read). For more on the constraints to which
musicians were subjected under both Nazism and Stalinism, see Skorecky's
article 'Red Music', reprinted in 'The Picador Book of Blues and Jazz', ed.
James Campbell, Picador, London 1995 ... " - Alexandra Klemm

Mark C.

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