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What Do Confederate Monuments and German Composer Richard Strauss Have in Common?


What Do Confederate Monuments and German Composer Richard Strauss Have in Common?
Readers of these occasional pieces will know that in addition to political issues, I also sometimes take a look at cultural questions, especially the role that film, music, and the arts play determining the direction of our civilization. The arts are both the natural product and the creative work of our culture, a kind of essential gloss which more than most anything else expresses our values, our innermost beliefs, and, yes if within the Christian tradition, our devotion and thanks to our Creator. Thus, mankind from the earliest times has demonstrated its innermost convictions and understanding of who it is in the scheme of things and its place in that creation by artistic activity. ....

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Doing Justice to William Walton - Terry Teachout, Commentary Magazine


Doing Justice to William Walton
An unjustly neglected British composer
Outside of Austria and Germany, the historic centers of Western classical music, most countries have a particular composer whose work is generally thought to be especially representative of what used to be called their “national character.” In Italy, it is Verdi; in Russia, Tchaikovsky; in Finland, Sibelius; and in the U.S., Aaron Copland. But for 250 years, England was different. After the death in 1695 of Henry Purcell, no classical composer of major stature emerged until 1899, when Edward Elgar’s
Enigma Variations were premiered and entered the standard orchestral repertoire. Before then, England had been known to German-speaking musicians as ....

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