Klarinet Archive - Posting 001294.txt from 2000/12

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Wagner vs. Straus (was Wlach a Nazi)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:27:40 -0500

Stewart Krintz suggests that Richard Strauss was antisemitic. I'd like
to defend Strauss. He was politically naive, about as stupid as one can
get in terms of his ability to deal with complicated politics, but his
antisemitism is very doubtful. He may not have been a philosemite, but
he was not a rabid racist or a Jew hater. Wagner, of course, is a
completely different animal, but Strauss was relatively benign.
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