HERR BACH, MEET HERR HITLER.(Brief Article)

From: Alberta Report | Date: May 8, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

If the Gospels are hate propaganda, then so, ipso facto, are all artistic works based on them. The Times reports from Italy, "A controversy has broken out over the revival of a long-neglected Roman Catholic Easter Passion which critics have branded 'anti-Semitic' because it blames the Jews for the crucifixion of Christ." The Turin newspaper La Stampa editorializes that the 1730 work by Antonio Caldara and Pietro Metastasio had been rightly "buried" because its "dark Catholicism" was inferior to "the Lutheran sentiments of Bach."

And what might those sentiments be? Hateful, ...

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