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Jonas Tarm

Young composer’s Carnegie debut canceled when Nazi music snippet discovered

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Jonas Tarm is an up-and-coming composer and his Carnegie Hall debut this month was to be his coming out party. But that won’t happen, after a complaint was filed over his composition’s inclusion of a 45-second passage of the anthem of Germany’s Nazi party.

Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday passes with little notice in the U.S.

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