[78-L] Mutter 1, Gershwin 0

[Kristjan Saag]

David Burnham wrote:

 > ASM's reputation has suffered to some extent because of her 
association with Karajan.  I met her several years ago and found her a 
very warm
 > person.  She told me at that time that she hadn't even heard of 
Karajan's reputed Nazi associations until after he was dead, I also 
hadn't heard
 > these stories until after his death.
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Ann-Sophie Mutter's reputation can only have benefitted from her 
association with Karajan. Mutter was born in 1963, and has nothing to do 
with Karajan's political views or memberships during WW II. Everyone who 
isn't possessed with questions of guilt and guilt by association 
understands that.
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David Lennick wrote:

>  I still stand by my opinions of ASM's playing however, beginning with the
>  Beethoven Concerto in stormtrooper tempos.

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This is as close to libel as it gets.
66 years after WW II German grandchildren of the wartime generation still run the risque to have their doings characterized by use of military vocabulary, associated with the Third Reich. I find it totally out of place on an international mailing list.
Kristjan