> The first concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 1940 series ‘boldly devoted its entire second part, which was broadcast, to extracts from Wagner's operas’.

> The first concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 1940 series ‘boldly devoted its entire second part, which was broadcast, to extracts from Wagner's operas’. In response to a letter of complaint, the Bristol Evening Post’s music critic expressed the majority and the BBC view that ‘by their unstinted applause, the audience gave the lie to the fantastic myth that the music of Wagner cannot or should not be appreciated by civilised people at war with Germany’. - https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/classical-music-radio-in-wartime-britain/ https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/class...