Word: musik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...program will be "Pereti Autem", by Mendelssohn; "Glorius Apollo," by Webbe; "Glee: To all you Ladies," by Holst; Brass Music from the tower of the Memorial Church played by members of the Pierian Sodality of 1808; "Turn Musik," by Gabrielli; Elegy, "Come Shepherds, we'll follow the hearse", by Arne: English folk song, "The Turtle Dove", arranged by Vaughan Williams; Two Choruses from Patience, by Sullivan; and "Harvard to the Harvard Team...