10-06-2016, 10:53 PM
Jehan Alain, a very promising composer who died young... another data-point of evidence of the destructiveness of fascism and militarism. I can only wonder what he could have become, as with Juan Crisostomo Arriaga (illness at 20 or so), Franz Schubert, George Gershwin, and Holocaust victim Gideon Klein.
We of course knew what Wolfgang Amadeus would have been as a mature composer.
We of course knew what Wolfgang Amadeus would have been as a mature composer.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.