Monday 7 March 2016

A problem

Last night somebody asked me if I'd try and play something from Carmina Burana. I started but stopped almost immediately. I told the person that I wouldn't play it and he asked me why. I replied that Herr Orff was just a bit too cosy with the Nazi party. I said I found playing any Orff to be grossly offensive, and I would not play Wagner or Richard Strauss either. What I didn't go on to say is that my Great-Grandfather was a German Jew. You can't blame me for taking a very dim view on these composers.

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