tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914939.post115473364377774273..comments2023-10-04T01:27:24.003-07:00Comments on Versus Populum: R.I.P., Elizabeth SchwarzkopfDwight P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849665963994688905noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914939.post-1154961567304050062006-08-07T07:39:00.000-07:002006-08-07T07:39:00.000-07:00I think we must be fair and honest about that hist...I think we must be fair and honest about that history. She admitted that she applied for membership in the Nazi party. She argued, with at least some justification, that to do so was equivalent to joining an artists' union in a no-right-to-work environment. My teacher in Reformation history was a member of Hitler youth in his teens -- but in his time and place, what teen was not (except for Jews, of course)? Many of the great artists of the WWII era were stained by the scourge called Nazism (Schwarzkopf's musical colleague in her husband's stable of artists, Herbert von Karajan, comes immediately to mind), and certainly we ought not to forget. But we must also not neglect forgivenness and reconciliation.Dwight P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15849665963994688905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914939.post-1154806674232869422006-08-05T12:37:00.000-07:002006-08-05T12:37:00.000-07:00Grand Dame of music, example of musiclal excellenc...Grand Dame of music, example of musiclal excellence, to be sure Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was indeed all of this and artistically more. Amidst the lauds for her artistic life, let us not neglect the stain of original sin and forget her affirmation of National Socialism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com