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Hindemith's Das Unaufhörliche (The Unending) scoffed at the "mines, oil wells, rubber plantations, graves of the mythless white race." Though conservatives complain about his shocking dissonances, Hindemith has always shown a strong sense of form. He can handle counterpoint as well as any man alive. The German Republic, which liked moderns, gave him a medieval tower to live in. The Hochschule in Berlin made him professor of composition. When the Nazis removed Hindemith and tabooed his works because his wife is Jewish, Wilhelm Furtwangler temporarily resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin...
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