When artists get concerned with politics, they act like other citizens. Last week in Modern Music magazine five famous European composers, now in the U.S., tried to answer a purely political question: what should be done to Europe's collaborationist composers?
French Composer Darius Milhaud answered unequivocally: "I don't see why artists should not be treated as ordinary citizens. Jacques Benoist-Mechin is a composer who has written a few works in which you may find a certain gift. He was a minister in the Laval cabinet. Now he is arrested, accused as a traitor, a...
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