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by Jonathan Rosenberg


  Chicago Herald and Examiner, 99

  Chicago Opera Association, 101

  Chicago Symphony, xix, xx, 32–37, 36, 99–100, 121, 122, 173, 193–94, 210, 214, 395n

  Furtwängler and, 220–35, 240–41

  Chicago Tribune, xii, 18, 35, 37, 100, 121, 172–73, 175, 176, 194, 222, 228, 229–30, 337

  Childs, Marquis, 305–6

  Chillicothe, Ohio, 50

  China, People’s Republic of, 190, 213, 373–75

  US relations with, 375

  Chopin, Frédéric, 171

  Chotzinoff, Samuel, 153

  Christianity, 156, 239

  Christians, Rudolph, 104

  Christian Science Monitor, 283

  Christians Producing Company, 104, 105–6

  Christopher, George, 252

  Cincinnati, Ohio, xx, 45–56, 268, 398n

  Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, 52, 88

  Cincinnati Enquirer, 49, 53

  Cincinnati Post, 53

  Cincinnati Symphony, 45–50, 52–56, 88

  Cincinnati Times-Star, 55

  Cisneros, Eleonora de, 91

  Citizens Committee of One Hundred, 266

  Civil War, Spanish, 314

  Civil War, US, xviii, xx, 61

  Clark, Delbert, 233–34

  Clark, Tom, 281

  classical music, xxi–xxv, 303, 335, 357–58, 377–78

  dwindling interest in, 378

  importance of, in American life, xv–xvi, xxii, xxv, 214, 377

  inspirational quality of, 172, 199, 209

  as pathway to peace, 212, 320–22, 326

  political significance of, xiv–xv, xxi–xxii

  relevance in contemporary US of, xii–xiii, xxv

  relevance in nineteenth-century US of, xvi–xxi

  relevance in US, from World War I to Cold War, xiii–xvi, xxi, xxv

  Clemenceau, Georges, 115

  Cleveland, Ohio, 176, 194, 214, 268, 371–72

  Cleveland Orchestra, 176, 328, 370–73

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, 368–69

  Cliburn, Mrs. (Van’s mother), 336, 339, 341

  Cliburn, Van, xiv, 335–44, 336

  Tchaikovsky Competition won by, xi, 335–36, 337–38

  ticker tape parade for, xi, xii, 341

  Cohen, Ethel, 257–58

  Cohn, Roy, 312, 313, 315

  Cold War, xiii, xiv, xvi, xxii–xxiii, 284, 285, 299, 306–9, 323, 324, 343, 355, 358, 374, 377–78

  American lives affected by, 279, 318–19

  music and, 297

  Collinsville, Ill., 5–6

  Cologne, 33

  Colorado, University of, 317

  “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” 87

  Columbia Artists Management, 261, 262, 337

  Columbia University, 150, 152, 284, 288

  Commentary, 306

  Commerce Department, US, 324

  Committee on Public Information (CPI), 13

  Common Sense, 182

  Commonweal, 234

  communism, xxiv, 195, 262, 281, 286, 289, 292, 298, 308, 310–15

  propaganda of, 304, 311

  Soviet, 212, 278, 283, 284, 291, 300, 304, 314, 323, 324

  Communist Party, 193, 283, 284, 286, 309, 311, 334

  American, 193, 289, 292

  Composers’ Forum Committee, 317

  concentration camps, 219, 229, 230, 242, 243, 256, 272

  Concertgebouw Orchestra, 266

  Condon, George, 368–69

  Congress, US, 3, 33, 51, 170, 238, 309, 326

  Public Law 663 passed in, 324

  Congress for Cultural Freedom, 307

  Congressional Record, 308

  Constitution, US, 353–54

  Fifth Amendment to, 313

  Cook, Nicholas, xxi

  Cooper, Bernice Sara, 152

  Copland, Aaron, 213, 278, 281, 297–300, 298, 330, 334, 348, 353, 360–61, 379

  diary of, 316

  A Lincoln Portrait, 308–10, 317–18

  political investigation of, 307–18

  Quiet City, 335

  El Salón México, 361

  Coppola, Jo, 342

  Corigliano, John, 302

  Cornell University, 92

  Counts, George, 288, 292

  Cousins, Norman, 288–89

  Craven, H. T., 90

  Creston, Paul, 330

  Crosby, John, 370

  Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, 277–78, 283–301, 304–5, 315, 318

  opposition to, 284–88, 292–300

  “peace” tour plan of, 300–301

  Curtis Institute, 344

  Czechoslovakia, 277, 332

  Daily Worker, 193

  Damrosch, Leopold, 8

  Damrosch, Walter, 9, 16, 90, 92, 105, 116–17, 138

  Flagstad affair and, 248

  on internationalism of music, 8–9, 173

  Muck affair and, 67

  performance of German classics defended by, 20–21, 26–27, 117

  Danube River, 211

  Darmstadt, 59, 61

  Daughters of the American Revolution, 73

  Davies, Joseph, 198

  Davies, Marjorie, 198

  Debussy, Claude, 244, 334

  Declaration of Independence, 353–54

  Defauw, Désiré, 213

  De Koven, Reginald, 88, 89, 104

  The Canterbury Pilgrims, 4

  democracy, xxi, 3, 21, 130, 147, 196, 197, 201, 203, 215, 225, 249, 273, 277, 289, 292, 294, 310, 321

  Democratic Party, 309, 312, 323

  Denazification Committee of the inter-Allied board, 219

  Detroit, Mich., 90, 120, 122, 268

  Detroit Symphony, 138

  Dewey, John, 138, 287

  Dewey, Thomas, 286–87

  Ditson, Mrs. A. M., 84–85

  Donaghey, Frederick, 100

  Dos Passos, John, 287

  Downes, Olin, 133, 177, 191–92, 200, 202–3, 207, 249, 293–94, 296

  Dresden, 6, 7, 22

  Dresden Opera, 130

  Drew, John, 106

  Dr. Zhivago (Pasternak), 349–50

  Dulles, John Foster, 342

  Dunkley, Ferdinand, 91

  Dürer, Albrecht, 181

  Durgin, Cyrus, 246, 268, 332

  Dvořák, Antonin, 50, 378

  East Berlin, 369

  East Germany, 360

  Eastman, Max, 292

  Eastman School of Music, 214

  East-West competition, 274, 281, 290, 320–22, 324, 325, 358, 362

  Edinburgh Festival, 327

  Edman, Irwin, 284

  Ed Sullivan Show, The, 317

  Ehrlich, Mrs., 257

  Einstein, Alfred, 175

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., xii, 273, 308, 321, 329, 333, 342

  foreign policy of, 322–24

  Eisenhower, Mamie, 342

  Eisler, Paul, 104

  Elder, Thomas, 22–23

  Elementary Song Book, 39

  Elie, Rudolph, 213

  Elish, Annie, 148

  Ellis, C. A., 62, 63

  Ellis Island, 239

  England, 36, 78, 190, 286

  Etude, 184, 205

  Fadeyev, A. A., 284, 286, 290, 301

  Farrar, Geraldine, 177, 249, 391n

  Farrell, James T., 261–62, 283

  fascism, xiii, xiv, xxiv, 135–37, 139, 169, 186–87, 195, 200, 202–4, 224, 237, 273, 286, 291, 294, 418n

  Fascist Party, 135, 138

  Fassett, James, 326–27

  Fay, Laurel, 445n

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 344

  Feuermann, Emmanuel, 168

  Fiedler, Arthur, 214

  Finland, 313

  Fischer, Ernst, 263

  Fitzgerald, John F., 208

  Fitzpatrick, Alfred, 243

  Flagstad, Kirsten, 213, 244–59, 245, 273, 278

  political problems of, 244–47

  Fletcher, Richard, 25, 26

  Fogle, Dawn, 3
10

  Ford, Henry, II, 360, 362

  Ford Motor Company, 353, 360, 362, 369, 459n

  Fort Clinton, Ohio, 372

  Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., 44, 53–55, 77, 79, 80, 94, 98

  Fort Thomas, Ky., 53

  France, 6, 28, 56, 78, 81, 93, 105, 109, 115, 203, 206, 213, 239, 286, 297

  Franck, César, Symphony in D Minor, 81

  Franco-Prussian War, xx, 41, 81

  Frankenstein, Alfred, 192, 254

  Frankfurt, 40, 132

  Franklin, Benjamin, 354

  freedom, xxi, 35, 153, 179, 186, 197, 199, 201, 204–5, 239, 273, 279, 286, 354, 373

  absence of, 292

  creative, 305, 311

  intellectual, 287, 292–93

  Freedom House, 287, 290–91

  French Army, 80

  French language, 11

  Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 129–30, 146, 68, 160, 242, 260, 262, 271–73, 422n

  Chicago Symphony post offered to, 220–35, 240–41

  conducting technique of, 223, 271

  death of, 271, 272

  debate on wartime role of, 210, 213, 216–34

  Hindemith affair and, 150–51

  New York Philharmonic post offered to, 129, 145

  opposition to Philharmonic appointment of, 147–49, 152–59

  Toscanini and, 129, 149, 154, 163–65, 424n

  Gabrilowitsch, Ossip, 122–23, 138, 139–41

  Gadski, Johanna, 11, 17–18, 101–3, 101, 411n

  Galvin, John, 55

  Garbett, Arthur S., 184

  García, Maria, xvi

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 204

  “Hymn,” 201

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 21

  Gates, Susa Young, 69

  Gatti-Casazza, Giulio, 7, 29–30, 114–15

  Gauk, Alexander, 331

  Geneva, 221, 230

  Geneva conference, 329

  Gerard, James W., 4, 57

  German Army, xiii, 13, 17, 157, 235, 239

  German Cultural Ministry, 237

  Germania Musical Society, xix

  German language, xiv, xix, 5, 11, 13, 14, 17–18, 23, 27, 28, 37, 38, 91, 100, 104–5, 107–11, 115–17, 119, 174, 181, 267, 272

  German Navy, 10, 13

  submarines in, 10, 15, 16, 98

  Germany, xix, xxiv, 3

  musical tradition of, xiv–xv, 6, 7, 9–11, 13–19

  US relations with, xiv, xv, 169

  Germany, Nazi, xxiv, 21, 127–32, 139–43, 147–56, 159, 163, 178–79, 182, 187, 231, 233, 234, 237, 240, 270, 271, 274, 310, 434n

  alliance of Italy and, 201–2

  Allied defeat of, 206, 208–9, 211

  Anschluss absorption of Austria by, 166, 167

  US declaration of war against, 169

  see also Nazism

  Germany, postwar, 215–21, 360–70

  “denazification” of, 215–16, 218–19, 227, 228, 237

  Germans, prejudice against, 4–6, 7, 11–20, 25–29, 32–33, 39, 42–43, 45, 57–59, 69–80, 85, 87–88, 102–13, 156, 175, 178, 187

  Gershwin, George, 378

  Gienow-Hecht, Jessica, xviii, 388n

  Gieseking, Walter, 213, 235, 262, 273, 278

  death of, 271, 272

  Nazi ties of, 235–44, 439n

  Gilbert, Rodney, 306

  Gilels, Emil, 323, 338

  “Giovinezza,” 135–36

  Glantz, Harry, 134

  Glass, Philip, 387n

  Glière, Reinhold, 334

  “God Save the King,” 86

  Goebbels, Joseph, 150, 151, 165, 167–68, 210, 224, 225, 237

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 28, 49

  Goetze, Klaus, 231–32

  Goldberg, Simon, 229

  Gold Star Mothers, 293

  Goldstein, Israel, 144

  Good Housekeeping, 180

  Göring, Hermann, 147, 210, 225

  Goritz, Otto, 17, 29, 101, 107, 109, 113

  Graf, Max, 234

  Grant, Ulysses S., xx

  Grant, W. T., 200

  Great Britain, 6, 15, 213, 254

  Great Depression, 129

  Greeks, ancient, xxiii, 174

  Greene, Norman, 242

  Gregory, Thomas Watt, 51

  Grieg, Edvard, 91, 247

  Grierson, Francis, 58, 70

  Gunn, Rex, 253

  Guthrie, William, 105

  Haggin, B. H., 191, 241

  Haifa, 161, 162

  Hale, Philip, 60

  Hamburg, 7, 40, 131, 222

  Handel, George Frideric, xx, 50

  Messiah “Hallelujah Chorus,” 208

  Handel and Haydn Society, 61

  Hanson, Howard, 214, 330

  Harbach, Otto, 327

  harmony, xxiii, 212

  Harrar, William, 152

  Harriman, George E., 148

  Harrington, Donald, 241–42

  Harris, Roy, Third Symphony, 361

  Harvard observatory, 284

  Harvard University, 10, 61, 344

  Haydn, Joseph, xix, 28, 268

  London Symphony, 265

  Hebrew language, 161, 368, 459n

  Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 268

  Heifetz, Jascha, 225

  Heller, Anatole, 356

  Hellman, Lillian, 289

  Henderson, W. J., 153, 155

  Hendley, Charles J., 147

  Herbert, Victor, 122–23

  Herseth, Adolph, 222

  Hersey, John, 280

  Hertz, Alfred, 40–42

  Higginson, Henry, 59, 61, 62, 71–72, 79

  Hindemith, Paul, 150–51, 296–97, 306

  Hiroshima, 211

  Hirschmann, Ira A., 147, 155, 217–18

  Hitler, Adolf, xxiv, 17, 120, 132, 143–44, 146, 151, 152, 156, 160, 165, 187, 197, 210, 238, 240, 258, 260–61, 267, 271, 273, 310

  death of, 211

  German musicians linked to, 212, 213, 215, 217–18, 220, 224, 237, 244, 259–70, 272

  Stalin’s pact with, 313

  Toscanini’s petition to, 127, 128, 129, 139–40, 141, 142

  Wagner’s music and, 131, 176, 182, 183, 184

  Hitlerism, 140, 198, 291

  Hitler-Stalin Pact, 313

  Hofmann, Josef, 122–23

  Hollywood, Calif., 296

  Holocaust, 212, 224, 258

  “Home on the Range,” 207

  Hook, Sidney, 287, 289, 290–92

  Hopi Indians, 175

  Horowitz, Joseph, xviii, 10, 388n

  Horowitz, Vladimir, 168, 169, 199, 225, 228, 237, 439n

  House of Representatives, US, 4, 326

  Appropriations Committee of, 324

  Education and Labor Committee of, 324–25

  Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) of, 286, 308, 311

  Houston Symphony, 305, 336

  Hovde, Bryn, 284–85

  Howe, Irving, 306–7

  Hubbard, Charles S., 49

  Huberman, Bronislaw, 122–23, 160–62, 163

  Hume, Paul, 263–64, 310

  Humperdinck, Engelbert, 25, 33

  Hurd, Richard M., 104

  Hutcheson, Ernest, 179

  Hylan, John Francis, 105, 106, 107, 110

  Hymn of the Nations (film), 203–6

  Idlewild airport, 262, 339

  Illinois, 308

  Indianapolis, Ind., 256

  Indianapolis Star, 256

  International Congress of the American Musicological Society, 174

  “Internationale,” 198, 433n

  Iron Curtain, 277, 307, 328, 329, 333, 334

  Ish-Kishor, Judith, 148

  Italy, 130, 132–33, 137–39, 169, 177, 201–5, 272, 286, 312

  alliance of Nazi Germany and, 201–2

  Allied defeat of, 200

  musical tradition of, xiv–xv, xvii

  US relations with, xv, 179

  Ives, Charles, The Unanswered Question, 347

  Izvestia, 335

  Jaffe, I
rma, 270

  Japan, 179, 243

  Allied defeat of, 206–9, 211

  Pearl Harbor attack by, 169, 170–72, 177, 197, 309

  US declaration of war on, 169

  Javits, Jacob, 325

  Jay, Elizabeth “Lucie,” 25, 27–29, 42, 71–74, 104–5, 117, 393n

  jazz, 303, 365

  Jefferson, Thomas, 207, 277

  Jelagin, Juri, 305

  Jerusalem, 161

  King David Hotel, 162

  Jewish National Fund of America, 144

  Jewish War Veterans, 238, 244, 263, 265, 269, 278, 293

  Johnson, Edward, 174, 177

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 370

  Jones, Isabel Morse, 192, 194, 215

  Juilliard School, 179, 329, 336, 356

  Juliana, Crown Princess of the Netherlands, 193

  Justice Department, US, 34, 37, 41, 51–53, 62, 75–77, 94, 102, 238, 281

  Kabalevsky, Dmitri, 331

  Kahn, Otto, 121

  Kallen, Horace M., 148–49

  Kansas City Musical Club, 42

  Karajan, Herbert von, 213, 259–70, 260, 273, 278, 360, 435n, 441n–42n

  Kasenkina, Oksana, 292

  Kater, Michael, 228, 441n–42n

  Kaufmann, Helen, 304

  Keating, Frank, 211

  Keiser, David, 352

  Kelley, Ruth, 168

  Kennedy, Gurney, 317

  Kennedy, John F., 318

  Kenyon and Eckhardt agency, 369, 459n

  Kerensky, Alexander, 291

  Khachaturian, Aram, 282, 335

  Gayane, 302

  Khrushchev, Nikita, xi, 338–39, 352

  “Kitchen Debate” between Richard Nixon and, 347

  Kiev, 334, 347

  Kilgore, Tex., 336

  Kindler, Hans, 179

  King, C. S., 107

  King, Enna, 91

  Kirov State Opera, 281

  Klemperer, Otto, 127, 131–32

  Knabe Piano Company, 123, 139

  Koelling, Helene, 9

  Kohler, Louis, 90

  Kolodin, Irving, 236–37, 241, 249, 343, 394n

  Kondrashin, Kirill, 340, 342

  Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 25

  Die Tote Stadt, 414n

  Kostelanetz, Andre, 225, 309

  Koussevitzky, Olga, 317

  Koussevitzky, Serge, 138, 173, 184, 192–99, 196, 206–7, 213, 280, 281, 344

  Krafft, Serena, 229

  Kramer, Lawrence, xxv

  Krehbiel, Henry, 70, 114, 119–20

  Kreisler, Fritz, 92–93, 141–42, 173

  Kremlin, xi, 305, 339

  Krupps munitions, 17, 103

  Kuibyshev, Russia, 186, 429n, 430n

  Kunwald, Ernst, 45–55, 46, 56, 59, 77, 88, 97–98, 401n

  Kunwald, Lina, 46, 51, 52

  Kuyper, George, 222, 226

  Laderman, Samuel, 222

  La Guardia, Fiorello, 147, 202, 208

  LaGuardia Airport, 277

  Lang, Paul Henry, 184, 265, 340–41

  La Scala, 135, 138

  Latin America, 174, 312, 321, 344

  Leacock, Richard, 352–53

  League of Composers, 309

  Ledyard, Mrs. Lewis Cass, 27

  Léhar, Franz, 40

 

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