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From: DeepBlue <dan.koren@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bruno Walter in BBC Music listed as non-Jewish
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:12:42 +0000
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 4:09:39 +0000, Pluted Pup wrote:

>
> The Jewish conductor Bruno Walter was listed as a non-Jewish
> musician that left Nazi Germany for political reasons, from
> BBC Music Magazine, February issue page 39 "the escapees".
>
> What a relief! But not for Jewish collectors, who will have
> to decide whether to throw out their Walter recordings, so
> the box sets might come up cheap used, the ones that aren't
> ceremonially burned.
>
> The article was typical hand-wringing about the conductor
> Furtwangler, trying to calculate what percentage of evil
> and how much he is pro-Jewish, since Jewish politics are
> considered to be the only thing important in music.

What exactly is your point? That Bruno Walter was not
Jewish according to some source? Who cares? I never
liked a single note he conducted.

The only things important in music are inspiration and
flow, assuming of course the person also demonstrates
technical competence with their chosen instrument.
All else is irrelevant.

Cheers!