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Copyright informationCopyright String Letter Publishing Aug/Sep 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THOSE WHO FORGET THE PAST
One can only wish that music had charms to soften savage regimes (Editor's Note, May 2008). But a moment's reflection on the elevated musical taste of the Nazis dashes that appealing fantasy. By accepting Kirn Jong-il's invitation to perform in Pyongyang, the New York Philharmonic gave a priceless propaganda gift to the totalitarian North Korean government, a gift of legitimacy bestowed on one of the world's worst regimes by one of the world's greatest orchestras. How utterly sad! Would the Philharmonic have played for the Third Reich? Would they have lent their matchless prestige to, say, the apartheid South African regime?
The people for whom the Philharmonic ...
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