Sunday - February 05, 2012

a personal thought

Some of you may not keep track of things of this nature and normally I don’t either.
It just so happens however, that for some odd reason I remembered Hitler’s birthday.
Not mind you that I celebrate the date.

The other birthday (my wife aside) that I have always remembered is the birthday of a woman who I had the longest crush on and used to call her Your Highness whenever we met.  That would be Loretta Lynn, April 14th.  I used to celebrate that date.
When I was a DJ, I hosted a large party at a local restaurant in Paducah, Ky., even though Loretta wasn’t in attendance.  But her record company gave me lots of help with free give aways etc.  So anyway …. this post isn’t about her and I don’t mean to use her noble self on the same page as AH and hope is does her no harm.
I’m only saying those are the dates I remember with no prompting

The Hitler date has a bit of a story and while I suppose I can understand the folks who questioned having a concert to celebrate Wagner on the same date as the birthday of AH, I think to cancel a concert just because he liked Wagner and a concert was scheduled on that date, is just plain silly. And pc I think.

I am not a fan of opera. I don’t understand it and had to put up with a lot of it as a kid, as my mother was a huge fan.  So I heard it a lot and never much liked what I heard.
I belonged heart and sole to Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw and Bix and the Firehouse Five etc.
But who am I?  If even Hitler loved Wagner …. ???

Well, as it happens, Berlin’s biggest opera house, the Deutsche Oper, has been forced to backtrack on plans to stage a re-launched version of Adolf Hitler’s favourite Wagner opera on the Nazi leader’s birthday.  April 20.  I honestly think we can be sure, in light of present day German laws, that the director of the opera house had no intention of celebrating that date.  He’d have risked jail were it intentional.  The date was pencilled in far in advance, the director says. With no thought to the date as anything other then just that. A date on a calendar.  But because AH was a very large fan of Wagner and especially of the one scheduled to be performed on the 100th anniversary of the opera house, it was decided to change the date least the wrong people see it as something else.  And of course, in case anyone might become offended.

OK, so what other events in any other part of the world might be considered a no show day in case the date should fall on the birth date of some infamous historical and criminal character?

Jeesh.

Cheers and enjoy what’s left of your wkend.  I’m off but decided to leave you with this bit of unrelated to anything except the appeal. And nope. Don’t know her b. day. Does it matter? Didn’t think so.

Posted by peiper     on 02/05/2012 at 07:20 AM   
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