Klarinet Archive - Posting 001298.txt from 2000/12

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner vs. Straus (was Wlach a Nazi)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:20:46 -0500

Dan,

You may be right about Strauss. I do know that he was appointed
"Reichsmusikkammer" when the Nazis came to power and was criticized for not
using his position as "court composer" to do anything about the complete
exclusion of Jewish performers from the symphony orchestras by the
authorities. But my main point had to do with the "merely anti-semitic but
not a Nazi" issue regarding Wlach.

Stewart Kiritz
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From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Wagner vs. Straus (was Wlach a Nazi)

> 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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