Music: Mendelssohn Down

Felix Mendelssohn was a composer who honored Germany with his music. But Felix Mendelssohn was also a Jew. Last week his statue was removed from the Municipal Theatre in Diisseldorf and Herr Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, as "spiritual adviser" of the German people, issued an order for other German composers to try to write music for Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

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