Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 2000/10

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Silly things that work
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:19:31 -0400

A few year's ago on visit to Prague
I was shown a small red book that was not kept
on the shelf with all the others, but hidden
in a bottom drawer. This was Theophil Stengel
und Herbert Gerigk's Lexicon der Juden in der Musik 1943 -
listing banned musicians - conductors - composers

It was a serious moment. I was stunned into silent contemplation
at the enormity of this document. It was so comprehensive.
More than half of the name were familiar.

Here is a small sample: Bauer, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, David, Fuchs,
Fruehling, Gal, Goldschmidt, Hollander, Horovitz, Jadassohn,
Kaminsky, Kauffman, Klemperer, Koppel, Korngold, Krein, Krenek,
Ligeti, Lindner, Loewe, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Milhaud,
Moschelles, Mueller, Rubinstein, Reizenstein, Rathaus, Selkes,
Schulhoff, Schoenberg, Tansman, Toch, Walter, Volbach, Weill,
Weinberger, Wellesz, Wolpe, Leo Wurmser, Zemlinsky....

I have since read Erik Levi's 'Music in the Third Reich', MacMillan 1994.
Chapter 3 is entitled "Anti-Semitism".. I hope that helps...

M

Daniel Leeson wrote /05 October 2000 17:35/Silly things that work

>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
>> >>
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