Word: kulturbolschewist
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Saint Francis, most ambitious and startling of the three, was a colorful, ingenious mixture of secondhand religious fervor with syrup of ballet: it caused terrific applause. Saint Francis had the advantage of a score by famed self-exiled German "Kulturbolschewist" Paul Hindemith (TIME, March 14), which proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed...
...summer of 1934 Germany's Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith's modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared its composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none...