09-23-2016, 10:35 AM
I am backtracking (or forward-tracking) to 1945.... but how about one of the greatest works ever composed in America, not by an American but by a political refugee from a vile and despicable regime in his own country. In a way, what could be more American than a monumental achievement by a sojourner?
Béla Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
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.