Word: kulturbolschewismus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Berg: Wozzeck (Charlotte Boerner, soprano, with the Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Artist Records, 4 sides). This difficult opera, a kind of Nordic and atonal Carmen, was violently criticized at its Berlin premiere in 1925, was the first work of art to be damned as Kulturbolschewismus by the rising Nazis. These excerpts give only a sketchy idea of the late Alban Berg's score. Performance: good...
...flowing locks of Germany's Romantic music were attacked by a plague of dandruff-Kulturbolschewismus (deliberate tune-deafness). In 1934 Adolf Hitler cured the patient by cutting off the head. Since then most of the world's composing has been done outside Germany, much of it in London. Most of the music recently composed by Londoners has been as monotonously indigestible as Yorkshire pudding. But today critics agree that the new London school of composers has produced one top-flight genius: 37-year-old William Walton...
...Baden should not have accepted a gift to which so many Jews had contributed and that the building is in the newer style (a halfhearted, weak attempt, to be sure) of which the Nazis do not approve. No doubt they would charge the above-named Jews with promoting "Kulturbolschewismus...
| 1 |