ABSTRACT

The venerable German periodical, “Die Musik,” has been “leveled.” The recent issues are strewn with thick, black, swastaki-shaped clawprints, and at the end of a learned article, the reader finds a piece of wisdom from Adolf Hitler: “Jeder Deutsche Kunstler kommt zu uns.” (“Every German artist comes to Us”.) There follows a fine, unsigned, antisemitic article directed against Alfred Einstein the former critic of the Berliner Tageblatt, now safe in London…. The Nazi fuglemen, in weeding uncongenial information out of the news now also decided to rename the city of Leningrad back to St. Petersburg but forgot to order the editor to kill the original correspondence from Leningrad, so that two identical reports of the Leningrad Summer Festival got in, one dated Leningrad, and the other, St. Petersburg.