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Soprano Schwarzkopf's U.S. debut had been delayed until she was 37, and her first visit was limited to a single recital. One reason went back to prewar Germany: in 1935, as a 19-year-old music student in Berlin's Hochschule fur Musik, she became a leader in the Nazi Studentenbund. Thereafter her career blossomed; throughout the war she was a favorite of German audiences. Eventually, after the blanket denazifications of 1946, she returned to the musical stage in Vienna...
...program, Lotte Lehmann gave them an encore, Schubert's tribute to music itself, An die Musik. Before the last note, her voice broke and she covered her face with her hands...
...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...
...Naziland, music by Jewish composers, performances by Jewish musicians, are strictly verboten. So that good Germans may know what music and which musicians to avoid, a Nazi Who's Who of Jewish musicians has been compiled. Its title: Judentum und Musik mil dem ABC jüdischer und nichtarischer Musik-beflissener. The third edition of this witching work, which last week reached U. S. shores, showed Nazi inquisitors to be more thorough than accurate. Among the prominent "Jewish" musicians listed: Chicago's retiring Yankee Composer John Alden Carpenter; rotund Danceband-leader Paul Whiteman; lusty, kewpie-faced Wagnerian Tenor...