April 22, 2025
Athens, GR 14 C
Expand search form
Blog

Hitler, the arts and how do we revive them

Hitler, the arts and how do we revive them

From my latest essay in The Critic:

The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani tweeted the other day asking, how many handshakes to Hitler? Most respondents touched Adolf at three or four removes. I managed it in one contact.

John Denison, his name was. A 20-ish horn player in the London orchestras, he was sent by Sir Thomas Beecham to Bayreuth in 1934 to buy Wagner tubas for a Covent Garden Ring cycle. John located the pub where the brass players drank….

Read on here.

The post Hitler, the arts and how do we revive them appeared first on Slippedisc.

Previous Article

MAGNIFICENT Bach Organ Works from Masaaki Suzuki

Next Article

Back from beyond, a blast of brilliant Tennstedt

You might be interested in …

Alienation at Lincoln Center

Alienation at Lincoln Center

This is the Center’s current season, released today. Who is the audience?   NEW YORK, NY (December 4, 2024) – Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) today announced additional Free and Choose-What-You-Pay programming throughout […]

MTT builds a family website

MTT builds a family website

The conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, recovering presently from a bout of flu, as been using his downtime to create an online shrine to his phenomenal ancestors. “My grandparents became mega-stars,” says Tilson Thomas, “and found […]