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by Jonathan Rosenberg


  Lehmann, Lotte, 152

  Leifels, Felix, 22, 24

  Leinsdorf, Erich, 175, 214

  Leipzig, 132

  Gewandhaus, 131

  Lenin, Vladimir, 198

  Leningrad, xiii, 282, 330–32, 334, 347, 430n

  Nazi siege of, 185–86, 188–90, 195

  Leningrad Conservatory, 189

  Leonhardt, Robert, 4

  Leventritt Award, 337, 341

  Levine, Lawrence, xxi

  Lhévinne, Rosina, 336–37, 338, 341

  liberty, 151, 199, 354

  Life, 190, 201, 202, 304

  “Music and Collaboration” article in, 216–17

  Lincoln, Abraham, 277, 308–9, 317

  Lind, Jenny, xvii–xviii

  Linnard, D. M., 39

  Liszt, Franz, 8, 122, 336, 375

  Rákóczy March, 90

  Literary Digest, 113–14

  Litvinov, Madame, 198

  Litvinov, Maxim, 193, 198

  Lobel, Murray, 225

  Locarno Pact of 1925, 157

  Lomax, Alan, 174–75

  London, 132, 206, 221, 222, 231, 272

  London Philharmonic, 220

  “Long, Long Trail,” 87

  Lord’s Prayer, 288

  “Lorelai, Die,” 100

  Lortzing, Albert, Tsar und Zimmermann, 111–12

  Los Angeles, Calif., 19, 39–40, 102, 103, 192, 215

  Hollywood Bowl, 207, 317

  Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, 317

  Los Angeles Philharmonic, 132, 194, 359

  Los Angeles Times, 39–40, 88, 103, 194, 215, 228, 292

  Louisiana, 336

  Louisville, Ky., 92

  Lovett, Robert Morss, 138

  Lucerne, 168, 227

  Lucerne Music Festival, 168–69

  Ludwig of Bavaria, King, 123

  Lusitania, 27, 29, 32, 41, 98, 101, 107, 111, 113

  Lyon, 235

  Maazel, Lorin, 378

  MacArthur, Douglas, 198

  Macdonald, Dwight, 290

  Macintyre, John, 68–69

  Madison, James, 354

  Mahler, Gustav, 149, 191

  Mailer, Norman, 278

  Manhattan Opera House, 116

  Mann, Thomas, 175, 182–83, 236

  Manning, William T., 73–74

  Marek, George, 180

  Marines, US, 198

  Marks, Mrs. J. Christopher, 105

  Marsalka, John, 301

  “Marseillaise,” 36

  Marxism, 153, 287

  Mason, Daniel Gregory, 150–51

  Massachusetts, 344

  Massachusetts Committee for Russian War Relief, 196

  Matinee Musical Club, 120

  Matzenauer, Margaret, 94

  Maxwell, Elsa, 104

  Maxwell, Myra, 31

  Mayer, Oscar, 100

  Mayerhoffer, Edward, 19

  Maynard, Eunice, 105

  McCann, Richard, 285

  McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, 269

  McCarthy, Joseph, 307–10, 312–17, 353

  McCarthyism, 281, 308

  McClellan, John, 312

  Medvedev, Alexsandr, 347

  Mehta, Zubin, 359

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 183

  Mendelssohn, Felix, xx, 88, 149, 162, 224, 244

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 40, 161

  Wedding March, 40

  Mengelberg, Willem, 168

  Menshikov, Mikhail , 340

  Menuhin, Yehudi, 217, 218, 227–28, 231, 280

  Meredith, Burgess, 203

  Merola, Gaetano, 250–51

  Mertens, André, 262, 267

  Metropolitan Museum, 174

  Metropolitan Opera, 4, 7, 10, 15, 18, 32, 40, 42–43, 75, 78, 91, 107, 123, 133, 282, 391n

  Flagstad and, 244, 254–59

  German operas removed from repertoire by, 29–30

  Monteux and, 80, 86

  protests over wartime performances of German operas at, 27-29

  radio broadcasts of, 185

  Wagner’s works performed at, 16, 17, 20, 113–14, 175, 180, 244, 413n, 414n

  Mexico, 316

  Michigan, University of, 268

  Mikoyan, Anastas, 339

  Milan, 135, 137–38, 165

  Milhaud, Darius, 297

  Miller, Arthur, 297

  Miller, Mrs. H. W., 85

  Milstein, Nathan, 171, 225, 228

  Milwaukee, Wis., 6, 120, 247

  Minneapolis, Minn., 214

  Minneapolis Symphony, 37–38, 328

  Mississippi River, xix

  Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 214, 344

  Moffett, Cleveland, 32

  Monod, David, 215

  Montana, 246

  Monteux, Pierre, 80–81, 86, 94, 95, 171, 329

  Moore, Grace, 208

  Morgenthau, Henry, 200

  Mormon Tabernacle, xviii

  Morton, Lawrence, 243

  Moscow, xi, xii, xiii, 274, 279, 280, 284, 294, 301, 304, 318, 320, 322, 330–32, 334–35, 337–39, 342, 429n

  Sokolniki Park, 347

  Moscow Conservatory, 338

  Mount Holyoke College, 171

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, xix, 27, 28, 82, 88, 173, 216, 244, 263, 357

  Haffner Symphony, 264

  Muck, Karl, 11, 30, 44, 54, 59–80, 60, 82, 94, 98, 131

  arrest and internment of, 45, 59, 75–77

  campaign against, 62–65, 73-75

  death of, 176–77

  extramarital affair of, 79, 95–97

  resignation from Boston Symphony of, 76

  sabotage and espionage accusations against, 78, 85, 95, 407n

  Swiss citizenship claim of, 77-78

  Muck, Mrs. Karl, 94–97

  Munch, Charles, 329

  Mundt, Karl, 312

  Munich, 145

  music:

  Communist perspective on, 295

  as a constructive force, xxii–xxiii, 184, 214–15, 285, 320–21, 330, 335, 355, 358, 388n

  and ethics of the future, 215

  formalistic, 295, 306–7

  gigantism in, xx

  link between politics and, xxv, 379

  twelve-tone, 302

  unifying power of, 55, 285

  as the universal language, xxiii, 88, 91, 214, 232, 273, 285, 326–27, 339, 375

  see also classical music; popular music

  Music Advisory Panel, 327–29, 356

  Musical America, 7, 9, 16, 19, 25, 34, 37, 68, 69, 87, 107, 131, 168, 180, 181, 215, 271, 273, 326

  Musical Courier, 18, 24, 30, 47, 74, 87, 93, 99, 109, 122, 124, 166, 207, 215, 326, 343

  Musical Forecast, 180

  musical nationalism, xxii–xxiv, 14, 21, 45, 86, 91–92, 129–30, 213, 321, 371

  musical universalism, xxii, xxiv, 14, 20, 130, 213, 322, 348, 359

  Mussolini, Benito, xxiv, 129–30, 134–36, 137–39, 148, 170, 200, 201, 204, 273, 418n

  Mussorgsky, Modest, Pictures at an Exhibition, 335

  Nabokov, Nicolas, 191, 296–97, 307

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 296

  Nagasaki, 211

  Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 207

  Nation, 21, 29, 118, 191, 241, 243

  National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 186, 190, 192, 205

  National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 281

  National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, 284

  National Federation of Music Clubs, 369

  nationalism, 85, 255, 367

  American, 4, 201, 341

  musical, xxii–xxiv, 14, 21, 45, 86, 91–92, 129–30, 213, 321, 371

  Pan-German, 182

  National Press Club, 352

  National Symphony, 175–76

  Navy, US, Pacific Fleet of, 170

  Nazi Chamber of Culture, 151

  Nazi Party, 130, 149, 216, 259–63, 266

  Nazism, xxiv, 130, 143, 147, 148, 152, 157, 161, 165, 167, 172, 176, 178, 180, 183, 212–13, 230, 234–36, 241–43, 256,
259, 267, 270, 274, 310

  Wagner link to, 182–84

  see also Germany, Nazi

  NBC Symphony Orchestra, xiii, 185, 187, 189–90, 195, 199, 202, 203, 208–9

  NBC Transmitter, 205

  Nettl, Paul, 216

  Neuer, Berthold, 139–40

  Newark, N.J., Mosque Theater, 301

  New Deal, 286

  Newhall, Richard, 252–53

  New Haven, Conn., 88, 301

  New Jersey, 6, 216

  New Masses, 153

  New Orleans, La., xvi, xviii

  New Orleans Philharmonic, 328

  New Republic, 191

  “Wicked Music” article in, 309–10

  New School, 147, 149, 285

  Newsweek, 195, 216, 280, 304

  New York, N.Y., xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, 4, 7, 20–28, 43, 59, 67, 118–20, 171, 221, 300–303, 336

  Aeolian Hall, 8, 117

  Bryant Park, 291

  Carnegie Hall, xii, 2, 06–07, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 23, 26, 42, 71, 73, 265–66, 268–69, 272, 289, 292–93, 302, 340

  City Hall, 109, 119, 341

  Community Church, 242

  Empire State Building, 303

  ethnic German population of, 392n

  Hippodrome, 121

  Hotel Astor, 105

  Irving Place Theater, 107

  Lewisohn Stadium, 208

  Lexington Theater, 104–5, 107, 110–12, 116

  Madison Square Garden, 87, 202, 203, 300

  Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, 273

  Soviet consulate, 292

  Trinity Church, 73

  Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 278, 279, 283–84, 286–90, 292–93, 298, 301, 304, 306–7, 315, 318

  New York Chronicle, 17, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 72, 394n

  New York Daily Mirror, 241

  New York Daily News, 353

  New York Globe, 17

  New York Herald, 20, 30, 73, 75

  New York Herald Tribune, 144, 191, 219, 228, 242, 262, 280, 283, 306, 340, 343, 370

  New-York Historical Society, 174

  New York Philharmonic, xix, 8, 21–23, 27, 28, 117, 119, 134, 144, 151, 174, 195, 202, 217, 302, 326, 328, 337, 341

  Asian tour of, 378–79

  Bernstein as conductor of, 320–21, 344–53, 360–70

  Furtwängler offered conducting post by, 129, 145

  music of living German composers banned by, 24–25, 26

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

  radio broadcasts by, 184–85

  recordings by, 345

  Soviet and Eastern European touring of, 320, 327, 329, 345–52, 357, 360–70

  Stransky as conductor of, 7, 10, 23, 24–26, 67, 89, 116, 117, 394n

  Toscanini as conductor of, 127, 128, 132, 133, 139, 160, 185, 199, 418n

  TV documentary on Berlin concert by Bernstein and, 352–55, 362–70, 459n

  Wagner performed by, 10, 23, 89, 116, 160, 181–82

  New York Post, 21, 153, 200, 342

  New York Public Library, 327

  New York State Supreme Court, 112–13

  New York Sun, 153, 155, 241, 249–50

  New York Symphony, xx, 8, 16, 20, 26–27, 67, 90, 92, 116–18, 130

  New York Telegram, 74–75

  New York Times, 16, 17, 18, 19, 31, 91, 110–11, 114, 117, 133, 143–44, 148, 150–52, 225, 233, 236, 250, 261, 265, 270, 272, 273, 283, 304, 310, 330, 338

  New York Times Magazine, 183, 205

  New York Tribune, 25, 31–32, 59, 70, 119–20

  New York University, 287, 306

  New York World, 74

  New York World-Telegram, 265, 272

  New York World-Telegram and Sun, 191, 337

  Nicholson, George, 112–13

  Nixon, Richard M., 347, 374

  Nobel Prize, 350

  Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, 148, 167, 244

  North Korea, 378–79

  Norway, 245, 246, 248, 249, 251, 253, 257, 258

  Norwegian Parliament, 246

  nuclear arms race, 284

  Nuremberg trials, 217

  Ober, Margarete, 4, 5

  Oberhoffer, Emil, 37–39

  O’Donohue, Joseph, 228–29

  Office of War Information, US, 206

  Bureau of Motion Pictures of, 203

  Ohio, 371–72

  Oistrakh, David, 323

  Oktoberfest, 363

  Oldberg, Eric, 220–21

  “Old Hundred,” 208

  Omaha, Nebr., 85

  Ormandy, Eugene, 173, 225, 333–35, 374–75

  Oshkosh, Wis., 42

  Ostbye, Mabel, 228

  Ottoman Empire, 6

  Outlook, 69

  Ozawa, Seiji, 375

  Pacific Ocean, 213, 253

  pacifism, 21, 23, 33, 57

  Palestine, 160–63

  Ramot Hashavim settlement in, 161

  Palestine Symphony Orchestra, 161

  Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, 40

  Paris, 80, 81, 218, 231

  Orly airfield, 240

  Paris Conservatory Orchestra, 90

  Paris Opera, 82

  Paris Orchestra, 88

  Parma, 132–33

  Partisan Review, 306–7

  Pasadena, Calif., 39

  Pasternak, Boris, 349–51, 354–55, 457n

  patriotism, xxi, 11, 13, 16, 19, 24, 33, 35, 40, 49, 58, 65, 66, 68–69, 74, 84–86, 88, 99, 108, 180, 197, 198, 233, 308, 310–11

  Peabody Conservatory of Music, 66

  peace movement, 284

  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Japanese attack on, 169, 170–72, 177, 197, 309

  Pearson, Drew, 342

  Peerce, Jan, 203

  People’s Committee for the Freedom of Religion, 278, 293

  Perkins, Francis, 191

  Perlman, Mrs. Joseph, 223

  Petrillo, James C., 262, 437n

  Peyser, Herbert F., 151, 164, 181

  Philadelphia, Pa., 87, 90, 92, 120, 264–65, 344, 353–54

  Academy of Music, 247–48

  Drama League, 88

  Independence Hall, 353

  Liberty Bell, 353

  Philadelphia Bulletin, 353

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 139, 144, 304

  Philadelphia Orchestra, xx, 42, 57, 90, 119, 121, 173, 225, 328

  Soviet tour of, 333–35, 355, 357

  Philharmonia Orchestra of London, 269

  Philharmonic Ladies Committee, 157

  Philippines, 327

  Piatigorsky, Gregor, 225

  Piston, Walter, 330

  Pittsburgh, Pa., 48–50, 56–59, 90, 92, 93, 120, 180

  Pittsburgh Dispatch, 58

  Pittsburgh Gazette, 58–59

  Pittsburgh Orchestra Association, 57

  Pittsburgh Post, 57–58

  Plato, xxiii

  Pleasants, Henry, 272

  PM, 193

  Polacco, Georgio, 99

  Poland, 284, 286, 370

  German invasion of, 169, 171

  Polish National Alliance Council, 268

  Pons, Lily, 225, 228

  popular music, xvii

  Poulenc, Francis, 191, 297

  Prager, Robert, 5–6

  Prague, 7, 229

  Pravda, 445n

  Prescott, Edith Talcott, 242

  President’s Emergency Fund for International Affairs, 324

  President’s Special International Program for Cultural Presentations, 328

  Presley, Elvis, 343

  Price, Walter W., 155–57

  Princeton University, 6

  Prokofiev, Sergei, 334

  Classical Symphony, 198

  Fifth Symphony, 280

  Soviet crackdown on, 282, 295–96

  War and Peace, 282

  Protestantism, 91

  Providence, R.I., 62, 64, 66–67, 177

  Providence Evening Journal, 62, 407n

  Providence Police Commission, 62

  Puccini, Giacomo:

 
; Madame Butterfly, 177–78, 208

  Tosca, 208

  Pulitzer Prize, 183, 309

  Pyongyang, 378

  Queen Mary, 167

  Rabaud, Henri, 82–83, 89, 93–94

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 168, 335, 340

  Third Piano Concerto, 338

  radio, 184–85, 188, 189, 192, 200, 204, 211, 282, 293–94, 300, 326, 327

  exposure to classical music expanded by, xvi, 184

  Radio Age, 200

  Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 200

  Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 335

  Ravel, Maurice, 244, 297

  Bolero, 191

  Red Cross, 26, 199, 202

  Red Scare, 284, 307, 318

  Reiner, Fritz, 259, 344, 420n

  Reinhardt, Max, 167

  Republican Party, 309, 311, 323

  Respighi, Ottorino, Pines of Rome, 374

  Rhineland, German invasion of, 157

  Rhode Island, 332

  Rhode Island Council of Defense, 62

  rhythm, xxiii

  Richter, Sviatoslav, 338

  Robeson, Paul, 171

  Robinson, Edward G., 195

  Rochester, N.Y., 197, 214

  Rodzinski, Artur, 183, 194, 344

  Rolland, Romain, 175

  Rome, 227

  Romulo, Carlos, 326–27

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 198, 309

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 170, 176, 187, 199, 201

  death of, 206–7

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 68

  Rosh Hashanah, 368

  Rossini, Gioachino, 360

  William Tell Overture, 201

  Rothwell, Walter Henry, 52

  Roussel, Albert, 297

  Roy, Klaus, 283

  Royal Opera (Germany), 59

  Rubinstein, Arthur, 171, 225–26, 228, 237, 240–41

  “Rule Britannia,” 183

  Rusk, Dean, 371

  Russia, 6, 190

  Czarist, 344

  Russian army, 197, 198

  Russian army choir, 211

  Russian Revolution, 291

  Russian War Relief, Incorporated, 188–89, 196, 198

  Rutland, Vt., 318

  Ryerson, Edward, 222, 226, 230–33

  Sachs, Harvey, 145, 149, 201

  Said, Edward, xxi

  Saigon, 357

  St. Louis, Mo., xx, 42, 120, 122

  St. Louis Symphony, 42

  St. Paul, Minn., 87

  Saint-Saëns, Camille, 297

  Samson and Delila, 86

  Salisbury, Harrison, 283

  Salt Lake City, Utah, xviii, 69

  Salzburg, 118, 164–66, 259

  Salzburg Festival, 163, 167–68

  San Antonio Symphony, 328

  San Francisco, Calif., xviii, 39, 40–42, 58, 102, 171, 250–54

  War Memorial Opera House, 251, 252, 253

  San Francisco Chronicle, 192, 251–52, 253

  San Francisco Opera, 173, 250–51

  San Francisco Symphony, 40–42

  Sapiro, Milton, 251

  Sargeant, Winthrop, 159

  Saturday Review of Literature, 184, 288, 343

  Schachat, Julia, 148

  Schiller, Friedrich von, 49

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 287

 

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