I think virtually everyone in Germany wishing to make any kind of living in any kind of peace and security, at that time, was more or less obliged to join the Party? And, if the current Pope can get away with having done so....
Apropos mention of E.S. appearing in a Folkish site, her recording of The Air from County Derry (The Londonderry Air; okay, it was "Danny Boy" is one of the best I've ever heard, and that in a language foreign to her. I wonder would a thread on "Traditional Songs as sung by Classical Vocalists" attract much interest and debate?


Rossini must have been kept awake by vocalising felines.