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From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 24, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

How uplifting, how improving, how unimpeachably good for us it has all been made to sound. Deutsche Romantik on the South Bank is "a major arts festival encompassing music, the visual arts, literature, film and performance, which celebrates one of Europe's great artistic movements and examines its continuing impact on the culture and identity of the German nation today".

What on earth could possibly be wrong with that? Surely it is the South Bank's purpose to act as torchbearer for the bright flame of human creativity, wherever it has burned; surely, as Lord Weidenfeld suggests in his ...

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