Familiar questions are addressed to freshly illuminating effect in Karen Painter's Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945, one of the first books in English to take a wider historical view of the phenomenon of the politicization of classical music in Nazi Germany.
   --Terry Teachout, Commentary

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Karen Painter is Associate Professor at the School of Music, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.