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...later years, Wagner was one of Germany's prime anti-Semites. He wrote Das Judenthum in der Musik (Judaism in Music), in Oper und Drama attacked a Jewish composer-Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Beer, of a Berlin banking family). But in the 18405, his letters now reveal, Wagner licked Jewish boots and liked it. Meyerbeer, whose brassy, spectacular operas influenced Wagner's early work, was a power not only in Berlin but in Paris, whose musical tastes he formed...
...although harmonically Pierrot stands on the threshold of a brave new world, in spirit it takes its source from the work of Mahler. It is Post-Romantic, not as Verklarte Nacht is Post-Romantic, a jumble of Wagnerian cliches; but as Das Lied von der Erdeis Post-Romantic, lamenting a dying culture. The formal resemblance between Pierrot and Das Lied (they are both song cycles) goes deeper than mere coincidence. It links together in a fundamental way two works essentially decadent--where structural unity has been replaced by a series of separate emotional patterns, where the medium is over-refined...
...Das Schwarze Korps, organ of the Black Shirts, published this revealing paragraph, showing how Hitler's crusade has backfired: "It is absolutely wrong to assume that Germany is fighting Russia to liberate Europe from Bolshevism. . . . We are fighting, not to save culture, civilization or democracy, but merely to save Germany...
...30Crimson Concert Master: Handel: Organ Concerto and music of Hindemith and Beethoven. 8:45 Louis Roney '42, Tenor. 9:00 "Hot Off the Record." 9:30 Crimson Concert Hall: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. 10:30 Granville-Barker, Reading. 10:45 George A. Field 2G, Monologues. News...
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' new weekly, Das Reich, said very officially: "Actually the question of invasion or no invasion, invasion today or invasion tomorrow, plays no part in victory or defeat. This question has already been answered by the German victory on the Continent...