Crazed Protester Disrupts Wagner Symposium in Jerusalem
More: Crazed Israeli Protester Disrupts Wagner Symposium in Jerusalem
(Reuters) - A crazed Israeli protester, angered that a symposium on Tuesday focused on Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, disrupted a public discussion at a Jerusalem concert hall before police removed him.
The event, and a planned concert on Wednesday which was cancelled earlier because of bad weather, aimed to mark the 200th year of the birth of Wagner, whose anti-Semitic ideology inspired Hitler’s National Socialist ethos.
Wagner’s music is unofficially banned in Israel and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra was not going to play any of his works on Wednesday. But the concert was called off because it was unable to complete rehearsals due to a heavy weekend snowstorm and poor ticket sales, an orchestra official said.
Wagner has for decades raised the ire of some Israelis and Holocaust survivors, who say his works carry echoes of Nazi Germany’s slaughter of six million Jews during World War Two.
In getting around the unofficial ban on playing Wagner in Israel, the concert was to have included works by composers who influenced the German composer or were influenced by him, among them Beethoven, Weber, Debussy and Chausson.
How many times does it have to be repeated: WAGNER DIED BEFORE HITLER WAS EVEN BORN. WAGNER WAS NOT A NAZI AND DID NOT SHARE NAZI IDEOLOGY.
He wrote some anti-Semitic shit in a music review magazine at a time when he was broke and angry. It is doubtful that Hitler or anybody else not from 1840’s musical circles even knew about that review.
Wagner happens to be one of the greatest composers of all time.
Meanwhile Richard Strauss, (composer of “Also Sprach Zarathustra”) was the OFFICIAL composer of the Third Reich but he gets a pass.
Here is one of my favorite Wagner pieces, the overture of Tannhauser.
