Klarinet Archive - Posting 000248.txt from 2000/10

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Silly things that work
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:34:25 -0400

Why was Eisler required to escape the Nazis? Was their opposition to
him political or religious?

Dan Leeson

Michael Bryant wrote:
>
> I recently played one of the Septets that
> Hanns Eisler wrote for a film that was never made
> while in California. I knew in advance that
> I would be called upon to explain who he was and why
> such a clever composer, who wrote such happy, witty music,
> was virtually forgotten.. so I check up .. born in Leipzig,
> studied with Schoenberg in Vienna, arrived in the
> USA in 1933 to escape the Nazis, was music assistant
> to Chaplin 42-47 in Hollywood but submitted to
> 'voluntary deportation' in 1948 as result of his
> left wing politics. Composed the national anthem
> of East Germany in 1949. Died in East Berlin in 1962
>
> MB
>
> Daniel Leeson wrote /03 October 2000 17:49/Silly things that work
>
> >The awful effects of the McCarthy era are still with us. Adler was not
> >the only guy to go down the tubes and never recover.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >Neil Leupold wrote:
> >>
> >> --- Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Adler never recovered from the abuse from the political right and his
> >> > career went down the toilet.
> >>
> >> That's really crappy.
> >>
> >> -- Neil
> >>
> >> Do You Yahoo!?
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> >>
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