YORK UNIVERSITY: Music under ideological control -- In Intl conference at York to explore music & Nazism.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-9 September 1999-YORK UNIVERSITY: Music under ideological control -- International conference at York to explore music & Nazism (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:080999 * Diefenbaker Award Winner/German Musicologist At York's Centre for German and European Studies to Research History of Western Music Under Hitler & Stalin TORONTO -- Professor Albrecht Riethmuller, Chairman of the Musicology Department at the Freie Universitat Berlin and the 1999 recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts John G.

Diefenbaker Award, will be investigating how the politics of Hitler and Stalin affected the development of Western music during his year-long stint at The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES) at York University. Riethmuller,...