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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
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Subject: Re: Music and nazism
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 16:33:27 EDT
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Summary: Father and son's beliefs

> 
> Oddly enough, I think publishing such information is a public
> service, though maybe one that much of the musical public doesn't
> welcome.  And I think the desire to know has a moral, as well as
> prurient, dimension to it.
> 
> 
> I mentioned Henze's father because my topic was broad: any positive
> relation between music & nazism.  The contemporary physicist Carl
> von Weizaecker has written extensively about his famous nazi father.
> It's ok in science writing, so why not in music?


It is a service to publish documented historical information, but drawing
links between parents and siblings with no detailed facutal information is
wrong.  For example, suppose, in personal life, someone is talking about me.
I am quite sure that my father voted for Reagan.  I worked for Mondale.
Should my friends and collegaues assume that I voted for the same person
as my father.  Are you sure that Reagan's artist son voted for Reagan in
the privacy of the voting booth?  So going back to the matter of Henze,
do you have any information on Henze's writings which support your inclusion
of him in this study.  Some siblings like their parents, but there
are plenty who are unlike or even the opposite of their parents.
I really dislike any judgments of a person based upon who his or her
family is.

					Linda Seltzer