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Hanns Eisler — Part 2

73 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: May 18, 1943 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Hanns Eisler · 73 pages OCR'd
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ce ee A ee eed le ao a eet ahllatfaliant I RAtiadatlininental ni . - : a ee we oe EE re eee aa oad wey The article mentions timt EISLER hed recently visited America where he hed met rany rusicians “who attenoted to use their art as he does." The article states that ELSLiR cescribed these musicians us “a splendid t froup of ertists." In the very next sentence, EiSLER is quoted as saying he will rcturn to Ancrica in the Pall where ne will teach at the NE SCHOOL Fe” SGCLAL RESHARCH in Now York City. The re:minder of this article is Given to 2 discourse ca music under !1% LEER ae Whe scran Look contained a Dussiag Ganpuaie article which was . » fa. trensistec by Spceial Euloyec i, notation indicates tuat X. this article appeared in the duly 20, 1955 issue of “Soviet Art." This ertesle, to ether inth the following articles, 1ill be treated in consicder- aole detail herein, inesimeh as they reflect EISLER's revolutionary character aud affiliction .ith Vorsruni sia The article quotes ZISLER at lencpth. It is orefaced by & resark thet S1SicR's first words to the intervicrer, upon arriving in Mescov, were his impressions of the "new face" of _oscow and, esfecialiy, of the difference between it and What he saw in the capitalistic countries. EISLER is then Gucted as saying that he made a micture in London, entitled “Abdul the Damned," which wes based on the Turkish Kevolution of 1993. ve stetes that the picture slso incluced such contemsorary episodes ag the burain,; of boots, anti-Soviet burning of union halls, ounish:ent of revolutionists, the underground yor: of the CONFUNIST FARTY, ete. Jie stated thet tlie film vas produced entirely through the efforts-of political imrisrants_ from fascist Cer many. It was Cirected by KAREGRUNE and starred FRITEAORTUER YM BISLES also related tint while in London he had composed tHe music to the play “Furnece Tire" (literal), written by the German revolutionary author SRUEST TOLER. te also states that he wrote several new fighting songs, to_ether with BERI-CRECHT , one of which was the “Se ££ the United Front", which he states he later discovered to be ths favorite song of the “iors can oroletariat . m4 “a EISLER'ts article then Cescribes his trip to North Aucrica and states that the virpose ci it was to “actively support the Aati-Fascist Tederation in the United Stutes.” He said tat in tlis country ho trevelod from ew York to Mollycosd civing cs cony as 50 speeches and concerts enroute. fe clained that the attendance at his aptesrances ana the revenues cuined from then, if tation as « criterion, -ace obvious the active solidarity beti.een the most diversified layers of tae feserican copulation ond the oporessed labor of fascist cersany. Te said that there is a stron: sympathy in the United States tovard tie toviet Vnion and thet 2 person returning fren the Soviet becaze the tar,ct for wany requests “to accurately portray life in a country of conservative socialis...¥ w - S1sSLéER then refers to the most dracsnmtis monent of bis trip, wi. he says was his visit "to the unjustly suffering revolutionary, 18 years imprisoned in an jmericaun prison, TOM MOONEY." He claisied that he waa por Yow -- ee ee ee em ee pe ee ee nee --
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