Music Under Hitler

"You have travelled a great deal in Europe, Germany and Austria especially. What is the reaction among artists towards the recent purging of German music?"

"The musical festival at Salzburg, with its glorious tradition, will no longer attract the great musicians and angers of to-day. The historic Music Halls will resound to a different types of music—synthetic and grotesque Fascism!

No more will the great Toscanini appear in any country under a Fascist regime, in giving a lead to fellow artists. Toscanini has exclaimed, A true artist cannot serve two masters. Art cannot play second fiddle to any political domination. We who profess to be artists cherish an ideal—to enrich the peoples of this world through the medium of the highest and noblest in artistic expression."

—R. P.