Re: Carl Orff

[Jordan Hirsch <trombaedu...>]

on 2/26/03 12:36 PM, Sylvie Braitman at curlySylvie (at) hotmail(dot)com wrote:

> Of course he was not the only one, and he was dead. Carl Orff is a
> complicated case since one of his grandparent was Jewish. He managed to hide
> that quite well and save his "ass" brilliantly.
> I would not say his music is Nazi. I think that at the same time some
> composers of Jewish origins were writing similar things...
> Other complex cases are Richard Strauss whose son's Jewish family ended up
> in Theresienstadt, despite of the fact that he had been the first president
> of the Reich Music Chamber.
> Then we can go on to Karajan and his brilliant post war career, Furtwangler
> and Elizabeth Scwartzkopf, all brilliant musicians who joined the Nazi party
> ( not Furtwanger, I believe) for professional as well as political reasons.
> Sylvie
There are spome additional problems with discussing Strauss. By the time of
the war, it is possible that Strauss was suffering from some kind of
senility. It is hard to determine in the later years of his life just how
much he understood of the Nazi program.

Jordan

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