Page "Music and politics" Paragraph 7

" I don't believe anyone venerates Mussolini more than I " said Stravinsky in 1930 to a Rome newspaper.

By 1943 Stravinsky was banned in Nazi Germany because he had chosen to live in the USA.

Beginning in 1940, Orff's cantata Carmina Burana was performed at Nazi Party functions, and acquired the status of a quasi-official anthem.

In 1933 Berlin Radio issued a formal ban on the broadcasting of jazz.

However, it was still possible to hear swing music played by German bands.

This was because of the moderating influence of Goebbels, who knew the value of entertaining the troops.

In the period 1933-45 the music of Mahler, a Jewish Austrian, virtually disappeared from the concert performances of the Berlin Philharmonic.