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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
Part I Terrorized by the Kaiser
Chapter One: “We Must Hate the Germans”: Tormented by Wagner and Strauss
Chapter Two: “It Would Be a Gross Mistake to Play Patriotic Airs”: Locking Up the Maestros
Chapter Three: “There Is No Visible Relationship between a Wagner Opera and a Submarine”: From Manhattan Riots to Wagner’s Piano
Part II Hitler’s Specter
Chapter Four: “I Want to Teach a Lesson to Those Ill-Bred Nazis”: Toscanini, Furtwängler, and Hitler
Chapter Five: “Let Us Conquer Darkness with the Burning Light of Art”: Shostakovich and Toscanini Confront the Dictators
Chapter Six: “I Come Here as a Musician”: Furtwängler, Gieseking, Flagstad, Karajan—and Hitler’s Ghost
Part III Confronting Communism
Chapter Seven: “The Obedient Instrument of the State”: Shostakovich and Copland in the Age of McCarthy
Chapter Eight: “Khrushchev Wouldn’t Know a B-flat if He Heard One”: Symphony Orchestras Fight the Cold War
Coda: “The Baton Is Mightier than the Sword”: Berliners, Ohioans, and Chinese Communists
Acknowledgments
Notes
Credits
Index
Also by Jonathan Rosenberg
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