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Article: The Inextinguishable Symphony, A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany, Martin Goldsmith (345 pp., John Wiley and Sons, HB $24.95).(Review)
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- June 1, 2001
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The Inextinguishable Symphony, A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany, Martin Goldsmith (345 pp., John Wiley and Sons, HB $24.95)
Martin Goldsmith hosted NPR's Performance Today for well over a decade and is well known among classical music aficionados as an erudite commentator on the whole of classical music literature as well as its current and former practitioners. The Inextinguishable Symphony, part gentle memoir, part periodic history, and part collaborative indictment, is first and foremost an eminently readable tale of Goldsmiths's parents' (Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert) musical maturation and eventual flight from pre-War Nazi Germany. ...