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Hanns Eisler — Part 2
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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 .
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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
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