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Subject: footnote on vicent d'indy
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i've just read a few pages from vincent d'indy's "cours de composition"
(more precisely volume 3, around p. 120, "la periode judaique" in
french music...)

there's no doubt in my mind now that roger lustig was right (btw i was
never questioning his statement, just stated my surprise in view of what
i knew) and i'd be surprised that the d'indy's opera "st cristopher" could
be antisemitic in anything but a very vicious way -- although i haven't read
the libretto, from what i've read in the "cours de composition" i'd be
surprised if we were merely be dealing there with "traditional new testament
type antisemitism."

i'll let anyone interested read the above excerpt for themselves.
just an amusing observation: there's a footnote of the editor (i didn't
check to see who it was) saying that we shouldn't conclude from d'indy's
"remarks" that he was "d'un antisemitisme farouche et intransigeant",
after all (writes the editor) he was a great friend of paul dukas (who
i didn't know was jewish). in other words "some of his best friends
were jewish"...

the question remains open as to what interest d'indy might have had in
the works of a semite incapable of creative activity such as salomone
rossi, but i guess i'll try to solve that one another day.