Schmidt, Ernst, 76, 80
Schnitzer, Robert, 325
Schoenberg, Arnold, 25, 149, 243, 296–97, 306
Schubert, Franz, 27, 162, 181
Symphony in C, xx
Unfinished Symphony, 42, 91
Schultz, Sigrid, 229–30
Schuman, William, 329, 356
Schumann, Clara, 8
Schumann, Robert, 27, 82
Seal Harbor, Maine, 78
Seldes, Barry, 344
Senate, US, 4, 198, 214
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Government Operations Committee, 308
Serkin, Rudolf, 168, 337
Service Star Legion of Allegheny County, 93
Seymour, Charles, 301
Shakespeare, William, 119, 155
Shapley, Harlow, 284–90
Shaw, Leslie M., 39
Shostakovich, Dmitri, xiv, 277–78, 280, 284, 285, 288, 291, 292, 298, 301–7, 318, 334, 335, 341, 353, 379
Fifth Symphony, 300, 349, 351
Sixth Symphony, 198
Seventh Symphony, xiii, 184–95, 279, 293–94, 348, 349, 354, 357, 429n, 430n
Eighth Symphony, 207, 294
criticism of America by, 302–3, 339, 343
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, 283, 445n
on Slavonic culture, 186–87
Soviet crackdown on, 282, 283, 290, 305–6
speeches of, 282, 290, 293–97, 302–3, 306–7
Shulman, Sylvan, 134
Sibelius, Jean, Violin Concerto, 302
Silesia, 8, 67
Simon, Henry, 193
Simon, Robert, 237
Skinner, Ernest, 32
Smith, Al, 106
Smith, Carleton, 176
Smith, Carlton Sprague, 327
socialism, 294
Socialist Realism, 445n
Society for the Prevention of World War III, 233
Sokolsky, George, 250
Sousa, John Philip, 87
“The Stars and Stripes Forever,” 203, 208, 375
South America, 220
South Dakota, 312
Southern California, 132, 182, 194–95, 207, 228
Soviet Ministry of Culture, 331
Soviet Union, xxiv, 185, 186, 192, 285
Finland and, 313
musical tradition of, xiv–xv
peace campaign of, 322–23
repression of composers in, 279, 281–83, 290, 295–96, 305–6, 311
touring musical groups of, 323, 325, 326
US musical performances in, 320, 327, 329–40, 345–52, 357, 360–70
US relations with, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, 78–81, 187, 189, 195–99, 360, 372, 373
Soviet Writers’ Union, 350
Spanish Civil War, 314
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 272
Spiering, Theodore, 110
Stalin, Joseph, xxiv, 212, 278, 285, 287, 307, 318, 323
crackdown on musical expression by, 279, 281–83, 445n
death of, 322, 323
Hitler pact with, 313
purges of, 292
Star Opera Company, 107–10, 112, 113
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” xx, 4, 8, 16, 26, 33, 36, 38–42, 47, 48, 50, 62–65, 68, 85, 95, 110, 177, 198, 201, 203, 207, 248, 378, 391n, 433n
State Department, US, 265, 286, 300, 301, 312, 314, 322, 324, 327, 328, 370
exchange program of, 316
Steinberg, William, 254
Steindel, Bruno, 36–37, 36, 42
Steindel, Max, 42
Stelton, Robert, 228
Stenzel, Bruno, 263
Stern, Isaac, 225
Stevenard, Emil, 80
Stock, Frederick, 32–35, 36, 121, 173, 179, 193, 396n
March and Hymn to Democracy, 99
Stokowski, Leopold, 90, 121, 138, 187–88, 194, 195, 207–8, 302
Stone, Kathryn, 39
Stoutenburgh, Marian, 31
Stransky, Josef, 7–8, 10, 23, 24, 25–26, 67–68, 89, 116–17, 121, 160, 394n
Strauss, Johann, 40, 116
“The Blue Danube Waltz,” xx
Strauss, Richard, xiv, 14, 19, 20, 22, 26, 40, 42, 69, 81, 83, 93, 94, 100, 104, 124, 175, 176, 180, 211–12, 263, 379, 395n
Alpine Symphony, 120
Also Sprach Zarathustra, 121
Death and Transfiguration, 25, 121
Don Juan, 25, 335
Elektra, 120
Salome, 120
Sinfonia Domestica, 47
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, 24, 25, 33, 264
US tours of, 118–22, 416n
Stravinsky, Igor, 296–97, 303, 306, 307, 360
Le sacre du printemps, 80
Streibert, Theodore C., 326
Studs Lonigan (Farrell), 283
Sullivan, Ed, 317–18
Sundelius, Marie, 91
Supreme Court, US, 198
Swarthout, Gladys, 208
Switzerland, 77–78, 131, 132, 139, 168, 217, 246
Symphony of the Air, 340
Szell, George, 337, 370–71, 372, 373
Taft, Annie Sinton, 50
Tanglewood, Mass., 192, 193
Taruskin, Richard, 282, 445n
Taubman, Howard, 205–6, 265–66, 270, 310, 335
Tauscher, Hans, 17, 101, 103
Taussig, Frank, 138
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich, xii, 28, 37, 48, 50, 199, 334, 335, 360, 365
First Piano Concerto, 340, 342
Fifth Symphony, 181, 198, 269
Tchaikovsky Competition, xi, 335–36, 337–38
Tchaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall, 348
Teatro Colón Orchestra, 220
Tel Aviv, 161, 162–63
Telegraf, Der, 361
television, 264, 279, 332, 342, 354, 360, 367
exposure to classical music expanded by, xvi, 353
Texas, 336, 337, 339, 340
Theater Assembly, 105
Theodore Thomas Orchestra, xix
Thomas, Edmond, 304
Thomas, Theodore, xix, 13–14
Thompson, Dorothy, 193
Thompson, Randall, “The Testament of Freedom,” 207
Thomson, Virgil, 246–47, 283
“Wheat Field at Noon,” 302
Tibbett, Lawrence, 208
Time, 151, 158, 167, 185, 190, 217, 280, 304
Tolischus, Otto, 183
Toscanini, Arturo, 130, 132–45, 133, 148–49, 154, 160–68, 193, 206, 224, 236, 316
Bayreuth Festival and, 132, 134, 139–44
death of, 271, 272–73
in fight against fascism, 129, 136–40, 166, 188, 200–205, 237, 273
Furtwängler and, 129, 149, 154, 163–65, 424n
Hitler petition of, 127, 128, 129, 139–40, 141, 142
Nazi ban on recordings by, 141, 143, 420n–21n
as NBC Symphony conductor, xiii, 185, 186, 189, 191, 199, 200, 203–5, 208–9
as New York Philharmonic conductor, 127, 128, 132, 133, 139, 160, 185, 199, 316n
Salzburg Festival and, 163, 164-67
Toscanini, Carla, 161, 162, 163, 201
Toscanini, Walfredo, 204
totalitarianism, 212, 262, 282, 307, 310
see also fascism; Nazism
Trampler, Walter, 193
Triller, Charles, 155
Tuggle, Robert, 441n
Turkey, 238
Ulm, 259
Union of Soviet Writers, 284
United Nations, 190, 202, 326
Charter of, 214
General Assembly of, 327
United States, xviii, 8, 245–46
atomic bombing of Japanese cities by, 211
banning of “enemy” music and musicians in, xiii–xiv, xxii, 4, 9, 19, 24, 27–31, 42–44, 238–39
censorship in, 291–92, 304
cultural achievement in, 321–22
economic decline in, 129
expanding world engagement of, xxiv, 377
free enterprise system of, 333
German immigrants in, 11–12, 20, 46, 57, 392n, 402n
German relations with, xiv, xv, 169
global importance of, xxi
Italian relations with, xv, 179
“Loan for Freedom” initiative of, 56
nuclear arms of, 284
opera in, xviii, 14–18, 27–32
overseas cultural presentations of, 320–21, 324–35, 345–52, 356–57, 359–76
perceived cultural barrenness of, 452n
Russian curiosity about life in, 331–32
Soviet relations with, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, 78–81, 187, 189, 195–99, 360, 372, 373
sports in, 324
waging of wars by, xxiv–xxv, 3
see also Soviet Union, US relations with
United States Information Agency (USIA), 324, 325–26, 360
Verdi, Giuseppe, 255
Aida, 133
“Anvil Chorus,” xx
Falstaff, 135, 136
La forza del destino Overture, 203–4
“Hymn of Nations,” 202–3, 205, 433n
Requiem, 168–69
Rigoletto, 130, 202
Il Trovatore, 177
Versailles, Treaty of, 157
Vienna, 45, 54, 92, 132, 165–66, 167, 175, 220, 227, 254, 370, 372
Vienna Boys Choir, 211
Vienna Philharmonic, 149, 221, 224, 229, 261, 266, 370
Vienna State Opera, 165, 259
Viereck, Peter, 182, 183
Villard, Henry, 21
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 21–22, 393n
Wagner, Charles L., 236, 237
Wagner, Cosima, 122
Wagner, Richard, xiv, xviii, 8, 11, 14–15, 19, 22, 26–32, 41, 216, 251, 257, 263, 378, 379, 395n
The Flying Dutchman, 108
Götterdämmerung, 94
Hitler and, 131, 176, 182, 183, 184
Kaisermarsch, 41
Lohengrin, 15, 90, 100, 108, 180, 207–8
Die Meistersinger, 15, 16, 81, 110, 114, 131, 167, 179, 181–82, 414n
Metropolitan Opera performances of, 16, 17, 20, 113–14, 175, 180, 244, 413n, 414n
Nazi connections of, 182–84
New York Philharmonic performances of, 10, 23, 89, 116, 160, 181–82
Parsifal, 10, 16, 71, 100–101, 113–14, 115, 131, 180, 413n
piano of, 123
Das Rheingold, 123
“Ride of the Valkyries,” 160
Ring cycle, 81, 105, 108, 114, 116, 117, 180, 183, 184, 207–8
Siegfried, 10, 15
Siegfried Idyll, 122
Tannhäuser, 100, 101, 108, 131, 180, 264, 266
Tristan and Isolde, 11, 15, 17, 18, 89, 91, 99, 101, 108, 115, 247, 248, 259, 265
Die Walküre, 100, 115, 117, 160, 173
Wagner, Robert, 244, 341, 352
Wagner, Siegfried, 122
Wagner, Winifred, 142, 143
Waldorf conference, 283–300
Waldrop, Gideon, 343
Wallace, Henry, 198
Wallenstein, Alfred, 179
Walter, Bruno, 118, 127, 131–32, 163, 164–65, 167, 168, 180, 222, 254, 344
Wanamaker, Sam, 300
Warfield, Edwin, 65, 66
War Refugee Board, 217
Warsaw, 334
Washburn, Abbott, 325–26, 360
Washington, D.C., xiii, 12, 52, 62, 77, 102, 121–22, 166–67, 238, 256, 262, 279, 285, 321, 322, 341–42, 352
Constitution Hall, 198, 263, 341
Lincoln Memorial, 309
Soviet Embassy, 282
White House, 3, 318, 342
Washington, George, 354
Washington Post, 151–52, 158–59, 179, 250, 264, 305, 310, 342
“Muted Trumpets” editorial in, 215–16
WCBS-Radio, 326
WCBS-TV, 352–53
Weber, Carl Maria von, 60
Invitation to the Dance, 39
Wechsler, James A., 198
Weil, Herman, 112
Weintraub, Samuel, 144
Welch, Joseph N., 353–54
Welland Canal, 17
Welt, Die, 361
West Berlin, 360–61
Brandenburg Gate, 362, 369
Hilton Hotel, 363
Reichstag, 363
Senders Freies Berlin concert hall, 363–64
Tempelhof Airport, 362, 366
Unter den Linden boulevard, 362
Westerman, Gerhart von, 260–63, 265–66, 268–69
Westminster Choir, 203, 216
Whitmer, T. Carl, 84
Whitney, Mrs. Richard, 156, 157
Wiesbaden, 237
Wilhelm, Kaiser, xxiv, 13, 18, 22, 29, 34, 41, 59, 63, 71–74, 88, 90, 97
Wilson, Edith, 198
Wilson, Woodrow, 6, 8, 31, 36, 52, 54, 56, 83–84
declaration of war by, 3, 4–5, 13, 16, 33
Proclamation 1364 of, 51
Winchell, Walter, 241, 249, 256
Winter, Max, 106–7
Wisconsin, 312, 313, 316
Wisconsin Music Teachers’ Association, 42
Wister, Owen, 88
Wolkonsky, Princess Irene, 340
Women’s Labor Zionist Organization of America, 224
Woodcock, Leonard, 375
Worcester Telegram, 193
World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace, 286
World War I, xiii, xiv, xvi, xxi, xxiv, 3, 4–16, 21–22, 141, 171–73, 178, 180, 205, 235, 378
Battle of Monte Santo in, 134
German prisoners of war in, 44, 76–79
Western Front in, 80
World War II, xiii, xvi, 130, 169–72, 177–78, 235–36, 279–80, 287, 308–9
Battle of the Bulge in, 250
blackouts in, 171
casualties in, 171, 212, 224, 253, 258
defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan in, 206, 207, 208–9, 211
WQXR radio, 282
Wroclaw, 284, 286
Yale University, 88, 301, 304
Yellow River Concerto, 374
Yiddish language, 107
YMCA, 105
Young, Brigham, 69
Young, Rosamond, 79, 95, 96–97
Young Progressives of Illinois, 224
Ysaÿe, Eugène, 55–56, 88, 103
Zeller, Carl, Der Vogelhändler, 106
Zhdanov, Andrey, 282
Zionism, 244, 266, 269
Zionist Youth of New York, 269
Zlatopolsky, Morris, 162–63
Zurich, 217
Zurich Opera, 145
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