Word: kulturbolschewist
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...Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill." He had a brief wartime success with a ballet, Joan of Zarissa, which was produced in occupied Paris. After the war, Egk went through the denazification wringer and was finally cleared...
...whom the Nazis banned as a Kulturbolschewist noisemaker (and whom most U.S. critics have called much the same thing in politer language), life was suddenly-at 52-much sunnier...
Walter Piston: Suite From the Incredible Flutist (Boston "Pops" Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor: four sides). Newly thawed from the Kulturbolschewist morgue, Harvard's Composer Piston kicks up his heels in one of the deftest, most scintillant ballet scores ever penned by a U. S. composer...
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 (William Primrose and Jesús Maria Sanromá; Victor: 4 sides). One of the most beautiful of contemporary viola sonatas, written in 1922, long before Composer Hindemith became a Kulturbolschewist...
Since that time most composers have been content to compose in one direction. Not so the famed, self-exiled German modernist, Paul Hindemith. Twelve years ago, before Nazi censors decided he was a Kulturbolschewist, sad-eyed Composer Hindemith dished up a whole opera in crab style. Last week an enterprising group of Juilliard Graduate School alumni gave this crab-style opera its first Manhattan hearing...