The following text on anti-Semitism in the cultural sector was published under the title „Nach dem 7. Oktober 2023“ in the February 2024 issue of the Schweizer Musikzeitung (SMZ).
Political topics in a music magazine should be avoided, as they only cause controversy and distract from the music. This one is an exception – well justified, in my opinion, because it deals with an event that touches on the core of our cultural understanding: the Hamas pogrom of October 7, 2023, with over 1200 victims and our reactions to it.
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Die Dickinson Collection: Das sind Notenautographe, Drucke, Briefe und mehr von Robert und Clara Schumann und anderen. Die Musikwissenschaftler Jürgen Thym und Ralph P. Locke haben die wertvolle Sammlung vor über 45 Jahren an einem See im Upstate New York ausfindig gemacht und schildern nachfolgend die Umstände ihrer Entdeckung.
How should a critic or scholar write for non-specialist readers? A lifelong music critic and musicologist reports here on challenges he has faced and comments on two encounters—fifty years apart, in 1971 and in 2020—that he has had with Offenbach’s operetta La Périchole.