March 27, 2010
Rudolph Dunbar
A neat little World War 2 anecdote found by my friend, Robert:
Dunbar was an accomplished symphony conductor as well as a journalist, and he conducted the London Philharmonic multiple times while stationed there. Interestingly, he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic after the war ended as a kind of double-jab at the Nazis: a black man could not only meet them on the battlefield, but he could conduct their derrieres, too. I was looking for any description of the nightlife and music scene in Berlin during the war, because Dunbar marched on Berlin with the U.S. forces.
Unfortunately, Robert didn’t find any descriptions of the music scene during the war in Berlin, but he did find a letter by Dunbar written on Hitler’s stationary!
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good stuff, Simone.